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 Franciae_; "_Let a_ Comes, _a Judge_ (says he) _not hold a_ Placitum, _(that is, not pass a Decree) but before Dinner, or Fasting._" Concerning the Word _Parliament_, and the Authority of that Name, we have this Argument; That when of old a Senate was instituted in _Dauphine_ with supreme Authority, which was commonly called the _Council of Dauphine_; _Lewis_ the 11th endeavouring to oblige the _Dauphinois_, who had well deserved from him, changed the Name of this _Council_ into that of a _Parliament_, without adding any Thing to the Privileges or Authority of it. Of which _Guidopappius_ is our Witness. [Quest. 43. and again quest. 554.] FINIS.