to

particular has never been able t boaft of fo much Felicity as under the Dominion of Queens; never been more enriched by Commerce, improved by juft Laws, adorned with more excellent Examples of Virtue, or more free from atl thofe Struggles between Prerogative and Liberty, which have ftained the Characters of our Otherwise moft Glorious Kings. But Providence by yet more extraordinary Difpenfations, has endeared them to us, by chufing them to be its Inftruments of pulling down or bridling the proudest Empires, which threatned Univerfal Ruin.

Our Ancestors un

dér Boadicia made that noble Effort for Liberty, which shook the

Old

Old Roman Dominion amongst us. Queen Elizabeth freed us from the double Tyranny of New Rome and Spain: And the Destruction of the prefent Grand Oppreffor of Eu rope, feems referved by Heaven to Reward the Piety and Virtue of our Excellent Queen.

I N.

INDEX

OF THE

CHAPTERS.

T

CHAP. I.

HE State of Gaul before it was
reduced into the Form of a Ro-

man Province.

CHAP. II.

Page i

Probable Conjectures concerning the An-

cient Language of the Gauls.

8

CHAP.

CHAP. III.

The State of Gayl, after it was reduced

ince the Form of a Province by the

Of the Original of the Franks, who ha

ving poffefs'd themselves of Gallia,

changed its Name into that of Fran-

cia, or Francogallia.

CHAP. V.

20

Of the Name of the Franks, and their

fundry Excurfions; and what time

they first began to establish a King-

dom in Gallia, At

29

CHAP.

CHA P. IVD

Whether the Kingdom of Francogalli

was Hereditary or Elective; and the

Manner of making its Kings. p. 38

CHAP. VII.

ref. M. Boron? od 10

2

What Rule was observed concerning the

Inheritance of the Deceased King,

when he left more Children than

one.

CHAP. VIII:÷Y+M

Of the Salick Law, and what Right

Women had in the Kings, their Fa-

CHAP. IX.illegra

Of the Right of Wearing a large Head

of Hair peculiar to the Royal Fa-

mily.

58

CHAP.