is recorded by _Sigebertus_, sub anno 894. _Aimoinus_ lib. 5. cap. 42. and _Godfridus_ part. 17. We must add to this Number _Charles_ the 27th King, sirnamed (because of his _Dullness_) [Footnote: _Propter Stuporem ingenii._] _Charles_ the _Simple_: Who having thro' his Folly suffer'd his Kingdom to run to Decay, and lost _Lorrain_ (which he had before recover'd) was _taken and cast into Prison_, and _Rodolphus_ was _chosen_ in his place, as _Aimoinus, lib. 5. cap. 42._ and _Sigebertus, anno 926._ do testify. * * * * * CHAP. VII. _What Rule was observ'd concerning the Inheritance of the deceased King, when he left more Children than one._ All that we have above said, tends to prove, that the Kingdom of _Francogallia_ in old times, did not descend to the Children by _Right of Inheritance_ (as a private Patrimony does); but was wont to be bestow'd by the _Choice and publick Suffrages of the People_: So that now there is the less Room left for the Question,--What Rule was observed in Relation to the Children of the deceased King, when he left more than one behind him. For since the Supreme Power nor only of _Creating_, but also of _dethroning_ their Kings, was lodged in the _Convention_ of the _People_, and _Publick Council_ of the Nation; it necessarily follows, that the _ordering_ the _Succession_ (whether they should give it entirely to one, or divide it) was likewise in the _People_. Altho' in this place another Question may arise, _viz._ supposing the People shou'd _reject_ the Son of their King, and _elect_ a Stranger, whether any thing should be allowed to the first to maintain his Dignity? For the Solution, of which 'tis to be understood, that Lawyers reckon four Kinds of such Goods, as may be properly said to be under the King's [Footnote: _In Regis ditione._] Governance; _viz._ the Goods of _Caesar_, the Goods of the _Exchequer_; the Goods of the _Publick_, and _Private_ Goods. The Goods of _Caesar_ are such as belong to the _Patrimony_ of every Prince, not as he is _King_, but as he is Ludovicus, or _Lotharius_, or _Dagobertus_. Now this Patrimony is called by the _Gallican_ Institutions, _The King's Domain_; which cannot be alien'd, but by the Consent of the _publick Council_ of the Nation, as we shall make it appear hereafter, when we come to treat of the Authority of that _Council_. The Goods of the _Exchequer_ are such as are given by the _People_, partly to defend the King's Dignity, and partly appropriated to the Uses and Exigencies of the _Commonwealth_. The Goods of the _Publick_ (as the Lawyers call them) are such as inseparably belong to the _Kingdom_ and _Commonwealth_. The _private_ Goods are reckon'd to be such Estate, Goods and Fortune, as are esteemed to belong to every Father of a Family. Therefore upon the Death of any King, if the Kingdom be conferr'd on a Stranger, the _Patrimonial_ Estate, as Lawyers call it, (being what was not in the King's Power to