ook care to fill with such Persons as would
be most subservient to their Ends.

Wherefore it will be worth our while, to enquire from what Beginnings it
grew up to so great a Heighth and Power; First, a very magnificent
Palace was built at _Paris_, by Order (as some say) of King _Lewis
Hutin_, which in our Ancient Language signifies _mutinous_ or
_turbulent_. Others say, by _Philip the fair_, about the Year 1314.
thro' the Industry and Care of _Enguerrant de Marigny_ Count of
_Longueville_, who was hanged some Years after on a Gallows at _Paris_,
for embezzling the Publick Money, Whoever 'twas that built it, we may
affirm, that our _Francogallican_ Kings took the same Pains in building
up this _litigious Trade_, that the _Egyptian_ Monarchs are said to have
done in employing their Subjects to build the _Pyramids_; among whom
_Chemnis_ is recorded to have gathered together 360000 Men to raise one
Pyramid. _Gaguinus_, in his History of King _Hutin's_ Life, has this
Passage,--"_This_ Lewis _ordained, That the Court of Parliament should
remain fixed and immoveable in the City of_ Paris, that Suitors and
Clients might not be put to the Trouble of frequent Removals." Now what
some affirm, that _Pipin_ or _Charlemagn_ were the Authors of this
Institution, is very absurd, as we shall plainly make appear. For most
of the Laws and Constitutions of _Charlemagn_ are extant; in all which
there is not the least Mention made of the Word _Parliament_, nor of
that great _fixed Senate_; he only ordains, That in certain known Places
his Judges should keep a _Court_, and assemble the People; which
according to his usual Custom he calls a _Placitum_, or a _Mallum_, as
[_lib. 4. cap. 35._ Legis _Franciae_] 'tis written, "_He shall cause no
more than three general_ Placita _to be kept in one Year, unless by
chance some Person is either accused, or seizes another Man's Property,
or is summoned to be a Witness--._" There are many other Laws extant of
that King's of the like Nature, by which we may observe the Paucity of
Law-suits in his Days: And I am clearly of Opinion, that what I find
several of our modern Authors have affirm'd is most true, _viz._ that
the first Rise and Seeds of so many Law-suits, Calumnies and Contentions
in this Kingdom, proceeded from Pope _Clement_ the Fifth, who during the
Reign of _Philip the Fair_, transferred the Seat of his Papacy to
_Avignon_, at which Time his Courtiers and Petty-Foggers, engaging into
Acquainta