The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . ^ and vegetable due. For the man-agement of his estates he drew up regulations, from which welearn much about the conditions of the times. (Davis Read-ings, II, Xo. 149.) 799. Five features of the government deserve attention,—the administration by counts; the watching of the counts bythe missi dominici; the Icing^s own marvelous activity; the is-suing of capitidaries; and Mayfields. a. Under the Merovingians, large fragments of the king-dom fell under the rule of dukes, who became almost inde-pendent sovereigns and who usually passed on t
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . ^ and vegetable due. For the man-agement of his estates he drew up regulations, from which welearn much about the conditions of the times. (Davis Read-ings, II, Xo. 149.) 799. Five features of the government deserve attention,—the administration by counts; the watching of the counts bythe missi dominici; the Icing^s own marvelous activity; the is-suing of capitidaries; and Mayfields. a. Under the Merovingians, large fragments of the king-dom fell under the rule of dukes, who became almost inde-pendent sovereigns and who usually passed on their authorityto their sons. Pippin began to replace these hereditary dukeswith appointed counts, more closely dependent upon the royalwill. This practice was extended by Charlemagne. Except on the frontier, no one count was given a large dis- §799] GOVERNMENT 633 trict; therefore the number of these officers was very the frontiers, to watch the outside barbarians, the imperialofficers were given large territories ( marks ) and were knowB. Cathedral of Aachen — the so-called Carolingian part. as margraves. To the counts and margraves was intrusted allordinary business of government for their districts. Theymaintained order, administered justice, levied troops, and inall ways represented the king to the people. 634 THE EMPIRE OF CHARLEMAGNE [§799 h. Like the old dukes, the counts tended to become identi-fied with their localities as independent rulers, and to transmittheir power to their sons. To oppose this tendency directlyin those times was hardly possible. So, to keep the countsin order, Charlemagne introduced a new set of officers knownas missi dominici (kings messengers). The empire wasdivided into districts, each containing the governments ofseveral counts, and to each such district each year there wassent a pair of these commissioners, to examine the adminis-tration and to act, for the year, as the kings self, — over-seeing the work of local counts, corr
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