JUstice was formerly administred by the Kings themselves, who render'd it in Person to their People; but Affairs multiplying every day more and more, the Kings were obliged to ease them∣selves of that Burden, reserving to themselves only the Cognisance of Affairs of State. And for the Administration of Ordinary Justice, he established a certain Council, which they called, a Parliament, which judged and decided all Causes and Affairs, both Civil and Criminal, between Man and Man; and that without Appeal, in which, were present, all the Peers of France, both Ecclesiastical and Se∣cular: This Parliament followed the King in all his Voyages; and consequently, for that reason, was in those times, Ambulatory. It was first Instituted by Pepin in the year 757, and was doubtless the same thing that the Privy-Council is now. But at length the Kings parted with this Council in favour of their people; And Philip the Fair was the first that made the Parliament Sedentary, and gave them a part of his Palace at Paris, to be the Seat of that August Senate, which by the Integrity of its Decrees and Sentences, has acquired so great a Reputation among all Nations, that Popes, Emperours, Kings, and Foreign Princes, have voluntarily submitted
The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ...
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- The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ...
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- Wolley, Richard, fl. 1667-1694.
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- 1687.
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their differences to their Judgments; as may be seen by several Examples in History, and among others, by that of the Emperour Frederick, with Pope Innocent the Fourth, and of the King of Castile with the King of Portugal.
King Philip the Fair, following the Example of his Predecessours, Ordained there should be only two Sessions of the Parliament, viz. At the Feasts of Easter, and All-Saints, and distinguisht them in∣to two Chambers, of which one because it judged of the most important matters, was called the Grand Vault, or Grand Chamber, and the other, the Chamber of Inquests, or Inquiries.