ia_."
Again, in his 20th Book he makes mention of that Country possess'd by
the _Franks_ beyond the _Rhine_, and called _Francia_.--"Having on a
sudden pass'd the _Rhine_, he enter'd the Country of those _Franks_
called _Attuarii_, a turbulent sort of People, who at that time made
great Havock on the Frontiers of _Gallia_."--And in his 30th Book, where
he speaks of King _Macrianus_, with whom _Valentinian_ the Emperor had
lately made a Peace on the Banks of the _Rhine_, in the Territory of
_Mentz_,--"He died, says he, in _Francia_, whilst he was utterly wasting
with Fire and Sword all before him, being kill'd in an Ambush laid for
him by that valiant King _Mellobandes_." Now of this _Mellobandes_, King
of the _Franks_, the same Author in his following Book gives this
Character; "That he was brave and valiant, and upon the score of his
Military Virtue constituted great Master of the Houshold by the Emperor
_Gratianus_, and Lieutenant-General (in conjunction with _Nannienus_) of
that Army which was sent against the _Lentiates_, a People of
_Germany_." Afterwards, by virtue of a Treaty concluded between the
_Franks_ and the Emperor _Honorius_, they defended the Frontiers of the
_Roman Gallia_ against _Stilicon_: For _Orosius_ tells us in his last
Book, "That the Nations of the _Alani_, _Suevi_ and _Vandali_, being
(together with many others) encouraged by _Stilicon_; pass'd the
_Rhine_, wasted the Territories of the _Franks_, and invaded _Gallia_."

After the Emperor _Honorius_'s time, we have very little in History
extant concerning the _Frank_'s Warlike Deeds. For to those Times must
be apply'd what St. _Ambrose_ writes in his Letter (the 29th) to
_Theodesius_ the Emperor: That the _Franks_ both in _Sicily_ and many
other Places, had overthrown _Maximus_ the _Roman_ General. "He (says
he, speaking of _Maximus_) was presently beaten by the _Franks_ and
_Saxons_ in all places of the Earth." But in the Reign of _Valentinian_
the 3d, that is, about the 450th Year of _Christ_, 'tis plain, by the
consent of all Writers, that _Childeric_, the Son of _Meroveus_, King of
the _Franks_, compleated the Deliverance of _Gallia_ from the _Roman_
Tyranny, after a continued Struggle of more than 200 Years; and was the
first that established in _Gallia_ a firm and certain Seat of Empire:
For altho' some reckon _Pharamond_ and _Clodio-crinitus_ as the first
Kings of the _Franks_, yet without doubt there were many before them,
who (like the