unanimous
Consent _chosen_ King." And _Ado_ says, "The _Franks_ cast _Theodorick_
out of the Kingdom, shaved _Ebroinus_ in the Monastery of _Lexovium_,
and afterwards raised _Childerick_ to be King over them." Also the
Appendix to _Greg. of Tours, lib. II. cap. 64._--"The _Franks_ rise up
in _Arms_ against _Theodorick, cast him out_ of the Kingdom, and cut off
his Hair: They shaved also _Ebroinus."_

The like Virtue our Ancestors exerted in the Case of _Chilperick_ their
18th King, whom they _forced to abdicate the Kingdom_, [Footnote: _Regno se
abdicare coegerunt._] and made him a Monk, judging him unworthy to sit
at the Helm of so great an Empire, [Footnote: _Propter inertiam._] _by
reason of his Sloth._ Whereof _Aimoinus_, lib. 4. cap. 61. _Sigibertus_
and _Trithemius_, anno 750. and _Godfrey_, Chronic. part. 17. cap. 4.
are our Witnesses.

Again, a sixth Example of the like Severity is extant in _Charles the
Gross_ their 25th King; who for the like _Cowardise_, and because he had
granted away part of _France_ to the _Normans, suffering his Kingdom to
be dismembred_, was [Footnote: _Ab optimatibus Regni repudiatas._]
_rejected and turn'd out_ by the _Nobility_ and _Gentry_ of the Kingdom,
as _Sigebertus_ tells us _anno 890_. Which same thing _Godfridus_
records, _part. 17._ But more at large _Otto Frising, chron. 6. cap. 9._
where he adds this memorable Passage,--"This Man (says he) who next to
_Charles the Great_, had been the King of greatest Power and Authority
of all the Kings of the Franks, was in a short time reduced to so low a
Condition, that he wanted Bread to eat, and miserably begged a small
Allowance from _Arnolphus_, who was _chosen_ King in his stead, and
thankfully accepted of a poor Pension: From whence we may observe the
uncertain and miserable State of all Human Greatness; that he who had
govern'd all the _Eastern_ and _Western_ Kingdoms, together with the
_Roman_ Empire, shou'd at last be brought down to such a Degree of
Poverty, as to want even Bread." A Seventh Instance is _Odo_ the 26th
King, who after he had been elected King in the Room of _Charles_ the
Son of _Lewis_ the _Stammerer_, was in the 4th Year of his Reign, by the
_Franks, banish'd_ into _Aquitain_, and commanded to abide there; they
replacing in his stead the same _Charles_ the Son of _Lewis_. Which Fact
is recorded by _Sigebertus_, sub anno 894. _Aimoinus_ lib. 5. cap. 42.
and _Godfridus_ part. 17.

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