The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri].
- Louis Moréri
- Date:
- 1701
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![■ Pope Fitnocent llld, there appeared a fourth Colleftion, the Au- ■ thor of which is not known. Tancred, Arch-Dcacon of Bokgne I made a fifth, in the Year 1225. The fecond Part of the Curfus I Canomcm, or Courfe of Canm Law, being a Colleftion of the De- I cretal Epifiles, drawn up by the Order of Pope Gregory IXth. ■ fakes in the Epifiles of feveral Popes, and particularly thofe I Epillles, which were written from the Year 1150, the time in ■ \\h\ch Grattan Publifli’d his Decree, to the Year 1230, in which l| this Colleftion of Decretals was Publidi’d ; to tliis fecond Part W likevvife is added the Confiitutions of Councils, and fome De- M cifions of the Fathers: Tliis Colleftion was put in Order by Raymond De Pegnajort, the Popes Penitentiary, and is 'I divided into five Books, The firfl Book Treats princi- ■ pally of the EccIcfiafiicaJ Law in General, and of the feveral I . forts of Judges who have Jiirifdiftion in the Church. The fe- ■ cond treats of Civil Procefs, or the Forms of Profecuting an ■ Aftion. The third and fourth give direftions about Sentence ■ and PafTing Judgment in Civil Matters, taking in the Cafes in I which the Clergy are concerned, together with thofe relating to I Marriage, The fifth dilates upon both the Matter and Form, I concerning Tryal and Judgment in Criminal Caufes. The third I Part of the Ciifas Canonicus, or Courfe of Canon Law confifis l| of a Colleftion of new Decretals, and contains the Sextus, the ■ Clementines, and the Extravagants : The Sextus, i. e. The Sixth I Book of the Decretals was drawn up by Pope Boniface Vlllth’s I Order in the Year 1298: This Colleftion is divided into five I Books, like that oF Gregory IXth. the matter being thrown into I the fame Order, and divided under the fame Heads. The Cle- ■ mentines were formed into a Body by Pope Clement V. Some I time after the Celebration of the Council of Vienna, held in i? 11, I and Publifh’d in the Year 1517, by his Succeffor John XXlId. I The Extravagants of John XXIld. are the Decretal Epiftles of ■ that Pope, which were fo call’d, becaufe, being not yet inferted I into the Body of the Law, they feem’d as it were Out lyers, and I to Range out of the Confines of the Curfus Canoniem, which I Name has continued upon ’em ■, afterward the Decretals of fe- ■ veral other Popes were call’d the Common Extravagants, to the I Year 148?, and in this latter Body of the Canon Law, there I arc more of the Confiitutions of Pope John XXIId. than in H the Colleftion that goes under his Name. The third Period of II the Canon Law takes in the Conflitutions of Councils and Popes H made fince the laft Colleftions of the Decretals, with other Re- i gulations which have the force of Law in Ecclefiafiical Affairs I This lafl Divifion of Law is either Common-, i.e. as Morery I fpeaks. Receiv’d by all Catholicks, or elfe particular to fome I Community. There are two forts of Common Law, the one I relates to Difeipline, and the other to the Forms and Procefs of I Courts; The firfl: confifls of the Decrees of General Councils, I held fince Clement V. and the Bulls of Popes, not yet taken in to the Body of the Law, the greatefl part of which, has been put together by/.rrertm and John-MaryCherubins-, frpm whence Petrus Matheus, a Lawyer of Lyons, has extrafted a Colleftion which he calls, the Seventh Book of the Decretals. The fecond Part of this Common Law takes in the Forms and Regulati¬ ons of the Afoflolkli Chancery, made fince John XXIId. amoun- ! ting to the Number of Seventy one, the three Principal of j which are Receiv’d in France, upon the fcore of being Founded upon Natural Equity. That Branch of the Civil Law which is j call’d Proper or Particular, is that which befides the general Law of the whole Church, is peculiar to particular Nations, Provinces, Churches, Dioceffes, Chapters and Communities : i As to France, continues Morery, That part of the Canon Law, j ■ which is particular to us, is, in the firll place taken from the Ancient Decrees, Llfages or Cufloms of the Univerfal Church, being preferved by our Fore-fatliers with greater Care, than by the Neighbouring Nations-, and in thefe Llfages and Regulations, that which we call the Privileges or Immunities of the Gallican Church principally confifls. In the fecond place. That, which makes the Canon Law particular to France-, confifls of Royal Ordinances made by the Kings of the third Race, either with the concurrence of the States of the Realm, or their own proper Authority, or elfe in concert with the Holy See, fuch as the Prag- matick Sanftion, The Ordinances of Orleans, Blots, and others fo far as the Church is concerned ; The Concordat, made in the Year i^i6, between Pope Leo Xth. and. F^ncir ifl. which was concluded to foften that which flock’d the Court of Rome, in the Pragmatick Sanftion: To this we may add the German Con¬ cordat, made in the Year 1447, between Pope Nicholas Vth. and the Emperor Fredericlillld. and which is flill obferv’d in Lor- ratne and Alface. The third Branch of Ecclefiaflical Law, which, tho’ particular to France, is not obferv’d all the Kingdom over, is made up of the Canons of late Provincial Councils, Synodal Conflitutions, and Regulations of Corporations or Communities. Dou]at Hiflotre du Droit Canonique. There is a new Edition of the Body of Canon Law, and the Decretals, printed in r^Sy, with the Notes and Correftions of Petrus and Francifeus Pithaus, two Eminent Lawyers, printed from an Oripinai in the library of Mpnfieur le Fe/Zit/cr Minifler of State, Comptroller General of the Finances, and great Grandfon to Petrus Pithaiis ; This Edition is printed at Paris by D. Thierri. 1, AW, or FRENCH-LAW, arc the Laws and Cufloms by which Juflice is Adminiflred in Prance. Before the Franl^s, who came from Germany, enter’d Gaul, i. e. before the Vth. Century, the Roman Laws were the Mcafurc of Right and Wrong, in that Country, being likewife continued under the Merovian or firfl Line of the French Kings, tho’ with fome mixture of the Conflitutions of the Franl(s. Afterwards the fecond, or Car- lovinian Line made their Capitulary Ordinances, but the difoiders of the Xth. Century Co embarrafsd, and weaken’d thefe Laws, that, at the beginning of tlie third or Capetian Line of the French Kings, the Laws had fo far loll their Authority, that there was nothing remaining, but floating and uncertain Ufages, which gave beginning to thofe different Cufloms, which have fince been Reform'd, and flated in writing by Pubiick Authority. The Law, now obferv’d in France, confifls partly of particular Ordinances, and Cufloms, and partly of the Jus Romanum, or the Civil Law, which is current within the Territories, calld the Country of Written Law ; i. c. in Provence, Daupbine, and Languedoc-, but elfewhcre this Law goes no farther than the Reafbn of it will carry it, having no Authority in the Cujio- mxry Provinces; i. e. where the Jus Confuetudinarium, or Common Lrw prevails, as in Normandy, Picardy, efyx. And bcfidc', in thefe places, the Civil Law is only made ufc of as a Supplement, and in Cafes where the Provifions of thofe Proviores do not reach home. To trac^ the French Laws to their Original, we are to obferve, that the Roman Law Praftic’d in Gaul before the Vth. Century, was not that fet forth by the Emperor JuJli- nian ; for that was not Publiflfd till a Hundred Years a.fter the firfl Eruption and Conquefl of the Franl^s -, i. e. not till the Vlth. Century. Before which time, the Laws in Gaul were made up of the Imperial Conflitutions, CoIIefted in the Grego¬ rian, Hermogeniaii and Theodofian Codes: Property ivas likewife determin'd, and Juflice Adminifler’d partly by the Opinions and Reports of thofe Lawyers, whofe Books were Authoris’d and made Law by the Tioeodnfian Code: The Names of thefe Law¬ yers were, Papinianus, Paulus Caius, Vlpianw, Modejiinus, toge¬ ther with others, whofe Authorities were cited by thefe; i.e. Scxvola, Sabinus, Julianw and Marcellus ; Under this Form and in this State, the Roman Law w'as receiv’d in Gaul to the Year 450, but the Barbarians, who, foon after, fettled themfelves there, brought new Laws a long with them: Thefe Laws, or Cufloms of theirs were CoIIefted into one Volume, under the Title of the Code of the Ancient Laws, comprehending the Laws of the Vifigoths, an Edift of Theodoricli_ King of Italy, the Burgundian Laws, tire Salique Law, (which was that of the Franks) the Law of the Almaines, (;'. e. of the People of Alfatta and the upper Palatinate,J the Laws of the Bavarians, the Rlpuarian and Saxon Laws, and the Laws of the Angli and Frifons; to thefe we may add, the Laws of the Lombards, (which are much more confiderable than tliofe above mention’d,) The Capitularies of Charlemagne, and the Conflitutions of the Kings of Naples and Sicily: And here it is fufficient to mention only thofe Laws, which relate moflly to France, the mofl Ancient of which, are the Laws of the Vifigoths, who polfelTed Spain and a great part of Aquitain in Gaul; Thefe were firfl couch’d in writing by Evarix who began to Reign in tlia Year 4^5, but being futed and made only for the Goths, his Son Alaricus got an Abridgment of the Theodofian Code, extrafted by Anianus his Chancellor, for the Ufe of the Romans, who publilh’d it at Aire in Gafeoignyy with fome Explanations upon it, by way of Glofs : This Abridgment was allow’d as Authentick by the confent of the Bi/hops and Nobility in the Year 505. Afterwards, there was another Extraft made from this Code, which was call’d Scintilla. The Gothkk^ d-nrv having been enlarg’d by the following Kings, there was a Body of it made and divided into XII Books : This Colleftion, call’d, The Book^ of theGothkk^Law, was prefented to the Bifliops in the Council of Toledo held in who approv’d and confirm’d it. This Gothicl^Larp continued in Languedock^n great vvliilc after the Government of the Goths was deflroyed, as appears by the Ild Council of Troyes, held under Pope John VIII. in the Year 878. The Burgundian Law was Reform’d by Gonde- baud, one of their lall Kings, who publifii’d a Body of it at Ly ons in 501, to which there were made fome Additions as far as the Year 520, ;. e. Ten or Twelve Years before the Fall of the Burgundian Kingdom. And almofl a Quarter of all France being under the Burgundian Dominions, from hence it comes to pafs, that a great part of the French Law is deriv’d from them. As to the Salique Law, which was particular to tiie Frunlis, the Pre¬ face of it fliows, that it was written before they had pals’d the Rhine ; which is further confirm’d by the Places of their Meeting, and the Names of the four Sages, who drew it up, therein men¬ tioned : But, to fpeak truth, the Credibility of this Hiflory is none of the befl, all that we know for certain, is, That the Kings Childebert and Clotharius, Sons and SuccelTors of Clovis, drew up thefe Cufloms in'Writing, in which, they abolifh'd all the Re¬ mains of Paganifm. There are two Copies extant of this Salique Law, which, tho’ different in Exprclficn agree in Senfe. The oldefl Copy, and which was firfl Printed, makes ufc, in mofl of its Articles, of thofe barbarous Words, which fignify the Places where every Pubiick Regulation was made, together with the Sum of the Fine, cr Forfeiture for every Trefpafs and Fault. The other Copy is that which is call’d, The Edition of Charlemagne, and is inferted in the Code of the Old Laws. To tliis Salique Law, we may add that of the Ripuarians, the one being almoft altogether the fame with the other. Some People arc of the Opinion, that the Name of Ripuarians, and that of Saltans, be¬ long equally to the Franks, and are but two words, to fignify the fame thing ; However, in tlic Salique Law, the Frank/ and - ‘ Ripuarians](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30456320_0001_0777.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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