ven _Eudo_, whom they had placed in his stead, abusing
his Power thro' excessive Pride and Cruelty, was with the like Severity
_turned out_. Which Fact we find attested by _Gregory of Tours, lib. 2.
cap. 12. Aimoinus, lib. 1. cap. 7. Godfrey of Viterbo, part. 17. cap. 1.
Sigibertus, sub annis 461, & 469. "Childeric_ (says _Gregorius_) being
dissolved in Luxury, when he was King of the _Franks_, and beginning to
deflower their Daughters, was by his Subjects _cast out of the Throne
with Indignation_; whereupon he finding they had a Design to kill him,
fled into _Thoringia_." But the _Abbot of Ursperg_ says, "the People were
unwilling to kill him, but contented themselves with having _turn'd him
out, because he was a dissolute Man_, and a Debaucher of his Subjects
Daughters--." _Sigibertus_ says,--"_Hilderick_ behaving himself
insolently and luxuriously, the _Franks thrust him out of the Throne_,
and made _AEgidius_ their King."

And this most glorious and famous Deed of our Ancestors, deserves the
more diligently to be remark'd, for having been done at the very
Beginning, and as it were, the Infancy of that Kingdom; as if it had
been a Denunciation, and Declaration, that the Kings of _Francogallia_
were made such, upon certain _known terms and Conditions_; and were _not
Tyrants_ with _absolute unlimited_ and _arbitrary_ Power.

Their Successors also, keeping up the same Custom, in the Year of
_Christ_ 679, forced _Childeric_, their Eleventh King, to _Abdicate_,
because he had behaved himself insolently and wickedly in his
Government. And he having formerly caused a certain Nobleman, called
_Bodilo_, to be tied to a Stake and whipp'd, without bringing him to a
Tryal, was a few Days after slain by the same _Bodilo_. Our Authors are
_Aimoinus, lib. 4. cap. 44_, _Trithemius, anno 678._ and _Sigebertus,
anno 667_.

The Severity of our Ancestors appear'd in the same Manner a little while
after, in the Instance of their 12th King _Theodoric_; who being a
wicked and covetous Prince, "the _Franks_ (says _Aimoinus_) _rose up
against him_, and _cast him out of the Kingdom_, cutting off his hair by
_force_," lib. 4. cap. 44.--_Ado_, AEtat. 6. anno 696. but _Sigebertus_
sub anno 667. imputes a great many of his Crimes to _Ebroinus_ his
Favourite and chief General. [Footnote: _Praefectus Regius._] "King
_Theodorick_" (says he) "was _deposed_ by the _Franks_, because of the
Insolence of _Ebroinus_, and his Brother _Hilderick_ was with