The Severity of our Ancestors appear'd in the same Manner a little while after, in the Instance of their 12th King _Theodoric_; who being a wicked and covetous Prince, "the _Franks_ (says _Aimoinus_) _rose up against him_, and _cast him out of the Kingdom_, cutting off his hair by _force_," lib. 4. cap. 44.--_Ado_, AEtat. 6. anno 696. but _Sigebertus_ sub anno 667. imputes a great many of his Crimes to _Ebroinus_ his Favourite and chief General. [Footnote: _Praefectus Regius._] "King _Theodorick_" (says he) "was _deposed_ by the _Franks_, because of the Insolence of _Ebroinus_, and his Brother _Hilderick_ was with unanimous Consent _chosen_ King." And _Ado_ says, "The _Franks_ cast _Theodorick_ out of the Kingdom, shaved _Ebroinus_ in the Monastery of _Lexovium_, and afterwards raised _Childerick_ to be King over them." Also the Appendix to _Greg. of Tours, lib. II. cap. 64._--"The _Franks_ rise up in _Arms_ against _Theodorick, cast him out_ of the Kingdom, and cut off his Hair: They shaved also _Ebroinus."_ The like Virtue our Ancestors exerted in the Case of _Chilperick_ their 18th King, whom they _forced to abdicate the Kingdom_, [Footnote: _Regno se abdicare coegerunt._] and made him a Monk, judging him unworthy to sit at the Helm of so great an Empire, [Footnote: _Propter inertiam._] _by reason of his Sloth._ Whereof _Aimoinus_, lib. 4. cap. 61. _Sigibertus_ and _Trithemius_, anno 750. and _Godfrey_, Chronic. part. 17. cap. 4. are our Witnesses. Again, a sixth Example of the like Severity is extant in _Charles the Gross_ their 25th King; who for the like _Cowardise_, and because he had granted away part of _France_ to the _Normans, suffering his Kingdom to be dismembred_, was [Footnote: _Ab optimatibus Regni repudiatas._] _rejected and turn'd out_ by the _Nobility_ and _Gentry_ of the Kingdom, as _Sigebertus_ tells us _anno 890_. Which same thing _Godfridus_ records, _part. 17._ But more at large _Otto Frising, chron. 6. cap. 9._ where he adds this memorable Passage,--"This Man (says he) who next to _Charles the Great_, had been the King of greatest Power and Authority of all the Kings of the Franks, was in a short time reduced to so low a Condition, that he wanted Bread to eat, and miserably begged a small Allowance from _Arnolphus_, who was _chosen_ King in his stead, and thankfully accepted of a poor Pension: From whence we may observe the uncertain and miserable State of all Human Greatness; that he who had govern'd all the _Eastern_ and _Western_ Kingdoms, together with the _Roman_ Empire, shou'd at last be brought down to such a Degree of Poverty, as to want even Bread." A Seventh Instance is _Odo_ the 26th King, who after he had been elected King in the Room of _Charles_ the Son of _Lewis_ the _Stammerer_, was in the 4th Year of his Reign, by the _Franks, banish'd_ into _Aquitain_, and commanded to abide there; they replacing in his stead the same _Charles_ the Son of _Lewis_. Which Fact