But now we come to the third Part of this Controversy, in order to understand, how great the _Right and Power of the People_ was, both in _making_ and _continuing_ their Kings. And I think it is plainly prov'd from all our Annals, that the _highest Power_ of _abdicating_ their _Kings_, was lodged in the _People_. The very first that was created King of _Francogallia_, is a remarkable instance of his Power. For when the People had found him out to be a profligate lewd Person, wasting his time in Adulteries and Whoredoms, they removed him from his Dignity by universal Consent, and constrain'd him to depart out of the Territories of _France_: and this was done, as our Annals testify, in the Year of Christ 469. Nay, even _Eudo_, whom they had placed in his stead, abusing his Power thro' excessive Pride and Cruelty, was with the like Severity _turned out_. Which Fact we find attested by _Gregory of Tours, lib. 2. cap. 12. Aimoinus, lib. 1. cap. 7. Godfrey of Viterbo, part. 17. cap. 1. Sigibertus, sub annis 461, & 469. "Childeric_ (says _Gregorius_) being dissolved in Luxury, when he was King of the _Franks_, and beginning to deflower their Daughters, was by his Subjects _cast out of the Throne with Indignation_; whereupon he finding they had a Design to kill him, fled into _Thoringia_." But the _Abbot of Ursperg_ says, "the People were unwilling to kill him, but contented themselves with having _turn'd him out, because he was a dissolute Man_, and a Debaucher of his Subjects Daughters--." _Sigibertus_ says,--"_Hilderick_ behaving himself insolently and luxuriously, the _Franks thrust him out of the Throne_, and made _AEgidius_ their King." And this most glorious and famous Deed of our Ancestors, deserves the more diligently to be remark'd, for having been done at the very Beginning, and as it were, the Infancy of that Kingdom; as if it had been a Denunciation, and Declaration, that the Kings of _Francogallia_ were made such, upon certain _known terms and Conditions_; and were _not Tyrants_ with _absolute unlimited_ and _arbitrary_ Power. Their Successors also, keeping up the same Custom, in the Year of _Christ_ 679, forced _Childeric_, their Eleventh King, to _Abdicate_, because he had behaved himself insolently and wickedly in his Government. And he having formerly caused a certain Nobleman, called _Bodilo_, to be tied to a Stake and whipp'd, without bringing him to a Tryal, was a few Days after slain by the same _Bodilo_. Our Authors are _Aimoinus, lib. 4. cap. 44_, _Trithemius, anno 678._ and _Sigebertus, anno 667_.