XIII. Some are held not so fully.
But in those Kingdoms wherein the people have any power, by way of Election or Confirmation, I confess it cannot be presumed, That it was ever their Mind to suffer the King to alienate his Kingdom. Wherefore what Crantzius observed, in Ʋnguinus, as an Act without any Precedent, That he had by his Testament given away Norway, we ought not to disapprove: For haply he regarded only the Customs of the Germans, amongst whom there was no such Right permitted, as to bequeath Kingdoms. For as Vopis••us in Tacitus saith, Empires cannot be bequeathed, as goods and bond-slaves may. Nor can a King, as Salvian observes, by his Testament, bequeath the people whom he hath go∣verned, to the poor. Now whereas Charles the Great, Lewis the Good, and others after∣wards among the Vandals and Hungarians, are said to dispose of Kingdoms by their Te∣staments: These afforded rather matter of praise among the people, than argued the force of a true Alienation: And as to that of Charles, Ado makes special mention, that he desired his Testament might be confirmed by the Peers of France. The like we find in Livy, concerning Philip King of Macedon, who endeavouring to expel Persis out of his Kingdom, and settle Antigonus his own Brothers son in it, went throughout the Cities of Macedon solliciting the Princes on his behalf. Neither is it to the purpose to object, That the same Lewis restored the City of Rome to Pope Paschal: Considering that the French having before received the Soveraignty over that City from the people, might very well restore it back again to the same people, in the person of the Pope, being their chief Ci∣tizen, and a Prince of the first order.