This _Council_ was sometimes called by another Name, _Curia_, the _Court_; from whence proceeded the common Saying, when People went to the _King's Hall_ or _Palace, we are going to Court_; because they seldom approach'd the King, but upon great Occasions, and when a _Council_ was call'd. _Aimoinus, lib. 5. cap. 50. "Charles_, (says he) the Son of the _Danish King_, sued (or prosecuted) several Noblemen of _Flanders_ very conveniently at this _Curia_, or _Court_. _Item, cap. sequenti_; _Henry_ King of the _Romans_ being dead, at that Great and General _Court, Curia_, held at _Mentz. &c._ Also _Otto Frising._ _Lib. Frideric._ I. _cap._ 40. After these Things, the Prince enter'd _Bavaria_, and there celebrated a General _Curia, Court_, in the Month of _February_. _Item, cap._ 43. _Conrade_ King of the _Romans_, calling the Princes together at _Francfort_, a City of _East France_, celebrated there a _General Court_." * * * * * CHAP. XI. _Of the_ Sacred Authority _of the_ Publick Council; _and what Affairs were wont to be transacted therein_. We think it necessary in this Place to consider what Kind of Affairs were wont to be transacted in this general _Annual Council_, and to admire the great _Wisdom_ of our Ancestors in _constituting our Republick_. We have (in short) observed that they are these that follow. First, the _Creating or abdicating of their Kings_. Next, the _declaring of Peace or War_. The _making of all Publick Laws_: The _Conferring_ of all _great Honours, Commands_, or _Offices_ belonging to the _Commonwealth_: The _assigning_ of any _part_ of the _deceased King's Patrimony_ to his Children, or giving _Portions_ to his _Daughters_, which they usually called by a _German_ Name _Abannagium_; that is, _pars exclusoria_, a Part set out for younger Children. Lastly, all such Matters as in Popular Speech are commonly called _Affairs of State_: Because it was not lawful to determine or debate of any Thing relating to the _Commonwealth_, but in the _General Council_ of the _States_. We have already produced sufficient Proofs of the _Electing_ and _Abdicating_ their _Kings_, as well from the last _Will_ and _Testament_ of _Charles_ the _Great_, as from several other Authors: To which we will add this one Passage more out of _Aimoinus_, lib. 5. cap. 17. where speaking of _Charles_ the _Bald_, he says thus,--"Having summon'd a _General Council_ at [Footnote: _Crecy._] _Carisiacum_, he there first gave his Son _Charles arma virilia_; that is, he girt him with a Sword, or knighted him, and putting a Regal Crown upon his Head, assign'd _Neustria_ to him, as he did _Aquitain_ to _Pippin_."