Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . into France, and there, after fome martial dif-cords, honoured in holy tindhire of chriftia-nity with the name of Robert, received ofCharles the Simple with hisdaughter (or fifter)Qilla, this trad: as her dower, containing (asbefore) more than Normandy. Ic is ^ reported,that when the bifliops at this donation requiredhim to kifs the kings foot for homage, afterlcornful refufal, he commanded one of hisi^nights to do it; the knight took
Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . into France, and there, after fome martial dif-cords, honoured in holy tindhire of chriftia-nity with the name of Robert, received ofCharles the Simple with hisdaughter (or fifter)Qilla, this trad: as her dower, containing (asbefore) more than Normandy. Ic is ^ reported,that when the bifliops at this donation requiredhim to kifs the kings foot for homage, afterlcornful refufal, he commanded one of hisi^nights to do it; the knight took up the kings leg, and in ftraining it to his mouth, overrurn-ed him ; yet nothing but honourable refpecilfollowed on either part.§. Thatas the conquerors blood didto the con- quered run. Our author makes the Norman invafion are-uniting of fevered kindred, rarher than aconqueft by a meer ftranger, taking argumencas well from identity of countryfhip (beins allGermans by original, and the people of theCimbrica Cherjbnefus, now Denmark, anti-ently called Saxons) as from contingency ofblood betwixt the Engle-Saxon kings, and thcNorman dukes thus exprefTed *.. Objed: not xhiLtduktRobert got the Conque-ror upon Arletta (from whom perhaps came ourname of harlot) his concubine, nor rhac ^ con-fanguinitatis & adgnationisjura apatre tantum& legitimis nuptiis oriuntur, right of bkodand kindred comes only by lawful marriage^as the civil law, and upon rhe marrer rhe Eng-lijh alfo defines ; bur rarher allow ir by law ofnature aud nobiliry, which juftifies rhe baftardsbearing of his farhers coat, diftinguiflied wicha bend finifter: Nicholas Ufton calls xtfiffurayeo quodfinditur a fatria haereditate, a divi-fton, becaufe he is feparated from his fathefsinheritance; which is buc his conceit; andread Heutefs tradt, de libera hominis nati-•vitate, where you fliall find a kind of le-gitiraation of thar now difgraceful namebajiard-., which in more antique tiraes wasas a proud title, inferted in
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