Which being so, we may easily comprehend the Reason why Strangers, who were ill affected towards our Nation, contumeliously called our Kings, who wore so great a Head of Hair, _Reges setatos, bristled Kings_; and not only so, but (tho' Bristles and long Hair be common to Lyons, Horses and Swine, all which are therefore called _Setosi_, or _Setigeri_) they stretched the Contumely so far, as to say, they had Hogs Bristles. From whence arose that filthy Fiction and foul Name, [Greek: trichorachaton] of which _Georgius Cedrenus_ writes thus in his History, [Greek: "Helegonto de hoi ek tou genous hekenou katagomenoi kristatoi ho hermeneuetai trichorachai heichon gar kata tes racheos auton trichas ekphuomenas hos choiroi"] that is, "They who were of the Kingly Race were called _Cristati_, which may be interpreted _Bristleback'd_; because they had all along their Back bones, Bristles growing out like Swine"--, Which Passage of _Cedrenus_, I believe, is corrupted, and instead of the Word [Greek: kristatoi], ought to be [Greek: setatoi], or perhaps both. For as some Persons called them pleasantly _Christati_ by Reason of their large erected Bunch of Hair upon the Tops of their Helmets; so their Ill-Willers called them upbraidingly _Setati_, or _Setigeri_. If _Cedrenus_ had not been so very plain in this Passage, and the Appellation of _Cristati_ be to be retained, I shou'd rather have thought they might have been called [Greek: trichocharaktoi], as being remarkable for their large Heads of Hair. * * * * * CHAP. X. _The Form and Constitution of the_ Francogallican _Government_.