eign of Litigiousness_ was first raised. As _Cicero_
writes, that the Old High-Priests (by Reason of the Multitude of
Sacrifices) instituted three Assistants called _Viri Epulones_, altho'
they themselves were appointed by _Numa_ to offer Sacrifice at the _Ludi
Epulares_: In like Manner, out of a very _Small Number_ of Parliamentary
Judges, (when Law-Suits and Litigiousness increased) swarm'd this
incredible Multitude of _Judges_, and _Spawn_ of _Counsellors_. And, in
the first Place, a great, sumptuous and magnificent Palace was built (as
we told you before) either by the Command of _Lewis Hutin_, or of
_Philip the Fair:_ then (from a moderate Number of judges) three Courts
of Ten each, were elected a [_tres decurie_] _viz._ Of the _great
Chamber_ of _Accounts_, of _Inquests_, and of _Requests_. Which
Partition _Budaeus_ speaks of in the above quoted Place, but more at
large _Gaguinus_ in his Life of King _Lewis Hutin_.

I must not omit one remarkable Thing that ought for ever to be
remembred, which both these Authors have transmitted to Posterity:
_viz._ That this Meeting of the Court of Judicature was not _perpetual_
and _fixed_, as 'tis now, but _summonable_ by the _King's Writs_, which
every Year were renewed by Proclamation about the Beginning of
_November:_ "_And that we may be certain_ (says _Gaguinus) that the King
was the Original and Author of this solemn Convention; the Royal Writs
are issued every Year, whereby the Parliament is authorized to meet on
the Feast-day of_ St. Martin, _that is, on the 10th of_ November."

Now of the wonderful and speedy Increase of this _Judicial Kingdom_, we
have this Instance; That about a hundred Years after its Beginning, that
is, in the Year 1455, in the Reign of _Charles_ the 7th, we find this
Order made by him--_From the Feast of_ Easter, _till the End of the
Parliament, the Presidents and Counsellors ought to meet in their
respective Chambers at Six a Clock every Morning: from the Feast of St._
Martin _forwards, they may meet later.--_And a little after it says, _We
judge it very necessary, that the Presidents and Counsellors of the
Court shou'd come to Parliament after Dinner, for the Dispatch of
Causes, and of Judgments._ This was _Charles_ the 7th's Order: But in
_Charles_ the Great's Reign, who ruled a Kingdom three Times as big, we
find a very different Manner of rendring Justice; as we may easily
understand by that Law of his, mention'd lib. 4. cap. 74. _Legis
Fra