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Show 100 Lib. 1; Lib. If. Capo7• of 1'11.1 AIIJ ltAit Father of v ncmgetDrtx held. the prin· ci ality ofGallia, but was Gam for a.f-fe~ ing the Kingdom; ~nd when Pif~ . T11-cilU4 calls Germanzcus the Son of :Prince of 'RJ''"'"s, not of a King,.of ~ rtbians • and vuhen Suetomus fa1th .c:/igula ~;nted. but a lit~le of turning the principality mto a Kmgdom ; and whcu M,erDboJ.uus is fa~d by VeUeius. w have embraced in h'ls mmd, not a pnncipality conftfting in the will of thofc thatobey, but a re~al power: Nc:vetthclcfs, we fcc thc1e names are often times co'nfounded ; for, both the Lac~dzmon1an Leaders of Hercules poflw· 'Y, after they ~ere: (ubje£\ to the Epho· ri were yet fiilc:d Kings, as we have faid afore • and the antient Gmnans had Kings: which, as Tacitu~ fpeaketh, were Soveraion by the authouty of pfr• f't11ilain.(, nor by the poV\'Cr of commAn• (l;1Jg. And Livy faith of Kmg Evandfr, that he ruled by authority rather than command : and efiriftotle and Po~· hius call Suffetes King of the Cartha· Lib. 13• inians, and Diod.Rru.r too, as alfo .~"'· • • . ~o is called King of the Cart~aglmani s.c~·"lta'!' b s l' And of Scepjis m 1rDAI fcr ipfit Anna- Y 0 tnHJ • balis : V't mim fi .i..L. • lltAU14 IDI1fUi bini ltgtJ &rt.hll· J(01PJil C(Yflfults' " c~~gtnt ,IJ d K' a be added the So!ll t~er. To thefc improperly nllC IDlS m y n by their Fathers, fK' n~& to wh·'m cnat royal name was ~~~c . .,~ ~taining th~ p~Wel' ia the~f~l~esb S~c~;:; ~:4 ~l~'~ddcll~ bis Father Art11~nxa c:ubcu to c JU ., flU&a'T,bo ~rtd• StrAtf ' Tile FirJ P~trl. 101 Stra/JD relates, when having joyncd co them the Mt/e Jians intQ one Coll)mon-wealth , they began to uie a .popular Government, the poHcricy of the old Kings retained the rctyal name & tome· what of the hClnour. On the contn~ ry, the Roman Emperors, after that o-penly and without any diffimulatiorr t~ey held a molt free regality, yet were . filled Prmces. M,>reover, Pripces in fome free Cities h:~ve the Enfigns and tnarks of royal Ma jeHy given unto them • N w , the Affembly o: · the States *, that is, of them that rcprefent • Prii/Jii,trltl• ~he people dsHr1bured into claj[u, in m, ~ifliftur {orne p;acc:s indeed ierve only to this pothl!,bur •- purpole. , t ha t h b /m~ ur 6un- t ey may e a greater rhrruslOfiu.i· Co~nc1lof the Kiltg, whereby the com- cur, ' plamts of the people, which are oft con-cealed in the Privie Council, may come unto che K1 ngs ear: in other places h1 ve a right to call in qur.ftion the aCtions of the Prince, and alto to prefcribe Laws, whereby the Prince himfelf '1s bound. Many there are, wh!) think the differe~e of the highefl Empire, o; of that lets thap the highrft, is to be taken from the conveyance of Empire byway ofe/eiliDn or[ucc•(/ion. Empire~ - d~vo\ved this way, they affirm to be higheft, not thofe that come the other w~y. But it is moll ,certain, this is not umv~rfallt true; for i\acceffion is not the t1tle of Empire, which gives it forml H 3 but |
