CHAP. II. He graunteth out a commission to right honourable personages for the examination and triall of all matters: whence ensued the repairing of the tottering state of Commonweale, and the punishment of some lewd and wicked persons.
SHortly after this he committed unto Secundus Sallustius, promoted to be Praefectus Praetorio, the charge to sit upon inquisitions, as unto a faith∣full minister; and joyned with him in commission Mamertinus, Arbe∣tio, Agilo and Nevita, Iovinus likewise newly advaunced to be Generall of the Cavallerie in Illyricum: who being all gone over to Chalcedon, in the pre∣sence of the a Principia and * 1.1 Tribunes of the b Ioviani and c Herculiani, exami∣ned causes more rigorously than reason and equitie required; except some few, in which the truth presented unto them most dangerous malefactors and offen∣dors. And first of all they confined into Britannie Palladius, late master of the offi∣ces, called into question upon suspition onely, That he had framed and suggested some matter to Constantius against Gallus, whiles he was Master of the offices under the said Gallus, being Caesar. Then banished they unto * 1.2 Vercellum, Taurus, who had beene Praefectus Praetorio: whose fact before indifferent judges, that can dis∣cerne betweene just things and unjust, might seeme very pardonable. For, what fault committed he, if fearing a blustering wind and tempest that was up, he fled to the protection of his prince? And the acts that passed upon him, were read not without great horror, when the publique Act or Record thereof contained this * 1.3 Exordium: During the Consulship of Taurus and Florentius, when Taurus was brought in under the Criers &c. Semblably, to the like point of destruction was