Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . ofe honour and title confift only in theperfonal dignity of being counts falatine, or fa-cri falatii comites generally. For alrhough di-yers of them have alfb privileges of power orjurifdidion added to their dignities, yet thofeprivileges are various, according to the will ofhim that creates them, and are meerly acciden-tal to their title. This perfoual title is borne asacquired by two ways; the one is the publickprofeffion or reading
Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . ofe honour and title confift only in theperfonal dignity of being counts falatine, or fa-cri falatii comites generally. For alrhough di-yers of them have alfb privileges of power orjurifdidion added to their dignities, yet thofeprivileges are various, according to the will ofhim that creates them, and are meerly acciden-tal to their title. This perfoual title is borne asacquired by two ways; the one is the publickprofeffion or reading of the imperial laws by thefpace of XX years together, and alfo, as fometakeit, ofthecanon laws. For Hieronjmus aLaurentiis, p that publifhed decifions of theRota oi Avignon (where he was dean) ftileshimfelf utriufque juris comes, by vv^hich he^ means, I think, this title of comes other by letters patents or bulls. That affuming it from the xx years profefHonof the imperial laws, is grounded upon a con-ftitution of Theodofius and Valetitinian, whichequals the dignity of all lawyers profefTing inConftantinofle xx years, and that with pubiick. J. XXXIII. 19. ItaBoetius de autor. mag. concil. $, z. cap. tioo 445 The Second Tart. 44^ tion ofpalatine. Menochlus ^ and Ibme ochersremember a charter of Frederlck III. to the uni-verfity of Tadua, by which he that profeflesXVI years there fliould have this dignity. BuEhow it came to paft that the name o{count pa-latine being fo great, as it was both ofliciaryand feudal (as is before fliewed) in the Germanand French empires, fliould be thus aflumed bymen of fo much lefs condition, deriving it moreantiently and out of the Roman empire, and howin the later empire it came to be firfl: ufed, fliallbe prefently fliewed, as foon as we have di-fpatchedthe dignity of thofe other counts fala-tine who have the title given them, as meerlyperfonal by patents or bulls. For the reafon tobeufed in fliewing it,equally concerns them t
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