him every Year at
the Time of the _General Convention_, Three Hundred Horses, as a Gift
and Token of Respect. _Item, cap. 85._ Not forgetting the Perfidy of the
_Saxons_, he held the _General Convention_ beyond the _Rhine_, in the
Town of _Kufftein_, according to the usual Custom."

This _Council_ was sometimes called by another Name, _Curia_, the
_Court_; from whence proceeded the common Saying, when People went to
the _King's Hall_ or _Palace, we are going to Court_; because they
seldom approach'd the King, but upon great Occasions, and when a
_Council_ was call'd. _Aimoinus, lib. 5. cap. 50. "Charles_, (says he)
the Son of the _Danish King_, sued (or prosecuted) several Noblemen of
_Flanders_ very conveniently at this _Curia_, or _Court_. _Item, cap.
sequenti_; _Henry_ King of the _Romans_ being dead, at that Great and
General _Court, Curia_, held at _Mentz. &c._ Also _Otto Frising._ _Lib.
Frideric._ I. _cap._ 40. After these Things, the Prince enter'd
_Bavaria_, and there celebrated a General _Curia, Court_, in the Month
of _February_. _Item, cap._ 43. _Conrade_ King of the _Romans_, calling
the Princes together at _Francfort_, a City of _East France_, celebrated
there a _General Court_."

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CHAP. XI.

_Of the_ Sacred Authority _of the_ Publick Council; _and
what Affairs were wont to be transacted therein_.

We think it necessary in this Place to consider what Kind of Affairs
were wont to be transacted in this general _Annual Council_, and to
admire the great _Wisdom_ of our Ancestors in _constituting our
Republick_. We have (in short) observed that they are these that follow.
First, the _Creating or abdicating of their Kings_. Next, the _declaring
of Peace or War_. The _making of all Publick Laws_: The _Conferring_ of
all _great Honours, Commands_, or _Offices_ belonging to the
_Commonwealth_: The _assigning_ of any _part_ of the _deceased King's
Patrimony_ to his Children, or giving _Portions_ to his _Daughters_,
which they usually called by a _German_ Name _Abannagium_; that is,
_pars exclusoria_, a Part set out for younger Children. Lastly, all such
Matters as in Popular Speech are commonly called _Affairs of State_:
Because it was not lawful to determine or debate of any Thing relating
to the _Commonwealth_, but in the _General Council_ of the _States_.

We have already produced sufficient Proofs of the _Electing_ and
_Abdicating_ their _Kings_, as w