Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . es nobles homes a grant plante fourhonorer fa fefte. The fame in ftibftance, al-moft in the very words, is delivered in a littlebook, titled la divifion du mound, and printedat Taris in mdxxxix. as alfo at the end oigeftaRomanorim, publiflied by Robert Gagwine longfmce, where, in the mention of the rich coronet,this addition is ainfi quil eft accuftume de faire,which expresfly denotes the known ufe of givingthe dignity by a coroner. B
Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . es nobles homes a grant plante fourhonorer fa fefte. The fame in ftibftance, al-moft in the very words, is delivered in a littlebook, titled la divifion du mound, and printedat Taris in mdxxxix. as alfo at the end oigeftaRomanorim, publiflied by Robert Gagwine longfmce, where, in the mention of the rich coronet,this addition is ainfi quil eft accuftume de faire,which expresfly denotes the known ufe of givingthe dignity by a coroner. But however theyfpeak here of four counties, I havenot yet feenwarrant enough for any fuch or any other num-ber of counties out of which a dutchy fhouldbe fo raifed. It is true that in fome old annalsof France we read that Tipfinus => rex Grifo-Ttem more ducum XII. comitatibus hence will fbme learned men ^ have ir, thatfome cuftom was (about the beginning of theFrench empire) to eredt a dutchy by making itout of XII counties, as is alfo before «^ neither the examples of the time beforeking Tifin (thofe examples are frequent enough. in Gregorius Turonenfs) nor fince juftify anyconftant cuftom of any number ; the countiesthat were in both the elder and later times un*der dukes being varioufly one, two, three, four^five or otherwife, as it happened; as appears inthe antient dutchies of Bretagne, BurgundyiNormandy, Auvergne, Bourbon, and fuch more,which is alfo argument enough to difprove allother opinions touching ^ any particular numberof counties here. For the coronets of thofe antient dukes; theywere not only circles of gold enricht withftones (as in the fallade they are mentioned)hvit fleury alfb, with flowersevenly and highly raifed, ora hautes fleurons tous d unehauteur, or this«which isbefore defcribed, as belong-ing alfb to fiich as have theparticular dignity ofprinces. This kind of co-ronet was very antient there, and impofed notonly at the firft
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