be said that _Royal Majesty_ does truly and properly reside, where the
great Affairs of the Commonwealth are transacted; and not as the
unskilful Vulgar use to profane the Word; and whether the King plays or
dances, or prattles with his Women, always to stile him YOUR MAJESTY.

Of all these Matters, we shall give only a few Proofs, out of many which
we could produce. First, out of _Eginarthus_, who was _Chancellor_ to
_Charles the Great_, and wrote his Life. These are his Words: "Wherever
he went (speaking of _Charlemagn_) _about the publick Affairs_: he was
drawn in a Waggon by a Pair of Oxen, which an ordinary Waggoner drove
after his rustical Manner. Thus he went to the Courts of Justice, thus
to the Place of the Publick Convention of his People, which every Year
was celebrated for the Good of the Realm; and thus he used to return
Home again."

_Joannes Nauclerus_ gives us an Account of the very same Thing, in
almost the same Words, in _Chron. Generat. 26_. So does the _Author_ of
the _Great Chronicle_, in the Beginning of his Life of _Charlemagn_,
Fol. 77. Neither ought this to seem so great a Wonder to any, who
considers it was the Fashion in those Days for our Kings and Queens, and
the Royal Family, to be drawn by _Oxen_; of which we have one Instance
in _Greg. Turon. lib. 3. cap. 26. "Deuteria_, (says he) Wife of King
_Childebert_, seeing her Daughter by a former Husband grown to Woman's
Estate, and fearing lest the King (being in Love with her) should lye
with her, caused her to be put into a Sort of Litter with untamed Oxen,
and thrown Headlong off a Bridge." _Aimoinus, lib. 4. cap. 30._ makes
mention of the Golden Throne, where he speaks of King _Dagobert_: "He
proclaimed, says he, _Generale PLACITUM in loco nuncupato
Bigargio_, a _Great Council_ in a Place named _Bigargium_: To which all
the Great Men of _France_ assembling with great Diligence on the Kalends
of _May_, the King thus began his Speech to them, sitting on his _Golden
Throne_." Also in his 41st Chapter, speaking of King
_Clodoveus_--Sitting in the midst of them, on his _Golden Throne_, he
spoke in this Manner, &c. _Sigebertus in Chron. Anni 662._--"'Tis the
Ancient Custom (says he) of the Kings of the _Franks_, every _Kalends of
May_, to preside in a Convention of all the People, to salute and be
saluted, to receive Homage, and give and take Presents." _Georgius
Cedrenus_ expresses this in almost the same Words: [Greek: katta de ton
Maion mena p