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• The Thomas Hollis Library
• Introduction
• Robert Molesworth and Gothic Liberty
• The Life
• The Ideas
• The History and Reception of the Texts
• Editorial Apparatus
• Bibliographical Descriptions Editions, Translations, and Extracts, 1694–1789
• English Editions
• European Editions 1
• Textual Policy
• Italics
• Spelling and Footnotes
• List of Sources
• Further Reading
• Acknowledgments
• An Account of Denmark
• The Preface
• Chapter I: Of the Territories Belonging to the King of Denmark, and Their Situation
• Chapter II: Of Denmark In Particular, and the Island of Zealand
• Chapter III: Of the Sound
• Chapter IV: Of the Other Islands, and Jutland
• Chapter V: Of the Rest of the King of Denmark’s Countries
• Chapter VI: Of Their Form of Government
• Chapter VII: The Manner How the Kingdom of Denmark Became Hereditary and Absolute
• Chapter VIII: The Condition, Customs, and Temper of the People
• Chapter IX: Of the Revenue
• Chapter X: Of the Army, Fleet, and Fortresses
• Chapter XI: Of the Court
• Chapter XII: The Disposition and Inclinations of the King of Denmark Towards His Neighbours
• Chapter XIII: The Manner of Dispossessing, and Restoring the Duke of Holstein Gottorp
• Chapter XIV: The Interests of Denmark In Relation to Other Princes
• Chapter XV: Of the Laws, Courts of Justice, Etc.
• Chapter XVI: The State of Religion, of the Clergy, and Learning, Etc.
• The Conclusion
• Francogallia, Or an Account of the Ancient Free State of France
• The Preface to the Reader 1
• The Translator’s Preface 3
• A Short Extract of the Life of Francis Hotoman, Taken Out of Monsieur Bayle’ S Historical Dictionary and Other Authors.
• Explication of the Roman Names Mention’d By Hotoman
• The Author’s Preface
• Chapter I: The State of Gaul, Before It Was Reduced Into a Province By the Romans
• Chapter II: Probable Conjectures Concerning the Ancient Language of the Gauls
• Chapter III: The State of Gaul, After It Was Reduced Into the Form of a Province By the Romans
• Chapter IV: Of the Original of the Franks; Who Having Possessed Themselves of Gallia, Changed Its Name Into That of Francia, Or Francogallia
• Chapter V: Of the Name of the Franks, and Their Sundry Excursions; and What Time They First Began to Establish a Kingdom In Gallia
• Chapter VI: Whether the Kingdom of Francogallia Was Hereditary Or Elective; and the Manner of Making Its Kings
• Chapter VII: What Rule Was Observ’d Concerning the Inheritance of the Deceased King, When He Left More Children Than One
• Chapter VIII: Of the Salick Law, and What Right Women Had In the King ’s Their Father’s Inheritance
• Chapter IX: Of the Right of Wearing a Large Head of Hair Peculiar to the Royal Family
• Chapter X: The Form and Constitution of the Francogallican Government
• Chapter XI: Of the Sacred Authority of the Publick Council; and What Affairs Were Wont to Be Transacted Therein
• Chapter XII: Of the Kingly Officers, Commonly Call’d Mayors of the Palace
• Chapter XIII: Whether Pipin Was Created King By the Pope Or By the Authority of the Francogallican Council
• Chapter XIV: Of the Constable, and Peers of France
• Chapter XV: Of the Continued Authority and Power of the Sacred Council, During the Reign of the Carolingian Family
• Chapter XVI: Of the Capetian Race, and the Manner of Its Obtaining the Kingdom of Francogallia
• Chapter XVII: Of the Uninterrupted Authority of the Publick Council During the Capetian Race
• Chapter XVIII: Of the Remarkable Authority of the Council Against Lewis the Eleventh
• Chapter XIX: Of the Authority of the Assembly of the States Concerning the Most Important Affairs of Religion 97
• Chapter XX: Whether Women Are Not As Much Debarred (by the Francogallican Law) From the Administration, As From the Inheritance of the Kingdom
• Chapter XXI: Of the Juridical Parliaments In France
• Some Considerations For the Promoting of Agriculture and Employing the Poor
• To the Gentlemen of the Honourable House of Commons of Ireland
• Some Considerations For the Promoting of Agriculture, Etc.
• Appendix 1
• Selected Sources Cited In Francogallia
• Loeb Classical Library
• Appendix 2
• Ordonnance Pour Les Rangs Du Royaume De Danemarck

Selected Sources Cited in Francogallia

This bibliography identifies a selection of most of the less obvious sources Hotman used in his Francogallia. Molesworth was reasonably accurate in his reproduction of the citations from these works, but his translation, like the original text, does not commonly identify the works beyond a short title and a book or chapter. For many of these citations the sources are fairly obvious: the classical works of Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Tacitus, Sallust, and others were staples for the reading public, even of the eighteenth century. Modern forms of names are used here: thus, for example, Molesworth’s “Eguinarthus” is our “Einhard.” Less obvious were a range of medieval and early modern references. This list offers a sense of the range of material cited. A full and precise bibliography can be found in Geisey and Salmon’s (GS Franc.) edition of Hotman’s work at pp. 545–61.

Ado of Vienne. Archbishop ca. 800–875.

Adonis Viennensis Archiepiscopi breviarium Chronicorum ab origine mundi ad sua usque tempora, etc., in St. Gregory Bishop of Tours. Gregorii Turonici Historiae Francorum libri decem, etc. (1561).

Aemilius, Paulus. Historian; fl. ca. 1455–1529.

P. Aemylii . . . De rebvs gestis Francorvm libri X, et Chronicon de iisdem regibvs, a Pharamundo vsqve ad Henricvm II. By I. Du Tillet (Paris: Apud A. Paruum, 1548).

Agathias. Historian; fl. ca. 536–94.

Agathyus de bello Gotthorum et aliis peregrinis historiis per Christophorum Persona . . . e Graeco in Latinum traductus (1531).

Aimon of Fleury. Abbot; ca. 950–1008.

Aimoni monachi qui antea annonii nomine editus est, Historiae Francorum lib. V. (Paris, 1567).

Ambrose, Bishop; d. 397.

Epistolae (Milan, 1490).

Ausonius. Roman poet; 309–395.

Ausonii Peonii poetae disertissimi epigrammata. Edited by Julius Aemilius Ferrarius (per Ioannem de Cereto alias Tacuinum: Venetiis, die. xi. Augusti, 1494).

Beatus Rhenanus. Historian; 1485–1547.

Rerum Germanicarum libri tres (Basel, 1531).

Bouchart, Alain. Historian; ca. 1478–1530.

Les chroniques annalles des pays d’angleterre et bretaigne: contenant les faictz et gestes des roys et princes qui ont regne oudit pays et choses dignes de memoire . . . depuis Brutus iusques au . . . Françoys II. (Paris, 1531).

Bouchet, Jean [Joannes Buchettus]. Historian; 1476–1550.

Les Annales d’Aquitaine: faicts et gestes en sommaire des Roys de France & d’Angle-terre, et pais de Naples et de Milan (Poitiers, 1557).

Budé, Guillaume. Historian; 1467–1540.

Annotationes in 24 Pandectarum libros (Lugduni, 1546).

De asse et partibus eius libri quinque (Paris, 1524).

Cassiodorus. Roman politician; ca. 485–575.

Magni Aurelii Cassiodori Variarum libri XII, item De anima liber unus (Augusta, 1533).

Cedrenus, Georgius. Historian; 11th century.

Georgii Cedreni Annales, siue Historiae ab exordio mundi ad Isacium Comnenum usque compendium (Basel, 1566?).

Commines, Philippe de. Chronicler; 1447–1511.

Les Mémoires De Messire Philippe De Commines, Chevalier, Seigneur d’argenton: sur les principaux faicts & gestes de Louis onzieme & de Charles huictième, son filz, Roy de France (Lyon: de Tournes, 1559).

Connan, François [Franciscus Conanus]. Lawyer; 1508–51.

Commentariorum iuris civilis libri X (Paris, 1558).

Corpus Juris Canonici (Paris: Guillard, 1541–1550).

Du Bellay, Guillaume [William Belay]. 1491–1543.

Epitome de l’antiquite des Gaules et de France. Plus sont adioustées une oraison et deux epistres (Paris, 1556).

Einhard. French courtier; ca. 770–840.

Vita et gesta Karoli Magni (Cologne: I. Soter, 1521).

Eutropius. Historian; 4th century.

Breviarium historiae Romanae (Pictaves, 1553).

Frederick II, 1215–1250.

Placita principium seu constitutiones regni Neapolitani cum glossis (Lyon, 1534).

Froissart, Jean. Chronicler; ca. 1337–ca. 1405.

Chroniques (Lyon, 1559).

Gaguin, Robert. Historian; 1433–1501.

De Francorum regum gestis (Paris, 1528).

Rerum Gallicarum annales (Frankfort, 1577).

Gilles, Nicolas. Historian; d. 1503.

Chroniques et annales de France (Paris, 1551).

Godfrey of Viterbo. Chronicler; ca. 1120–ca. 1198.

Pantheon, siue, Vniuersitatis libri: qui chronici appellantur, XX, omnes omnium seculoru[m] & gentium, tam sacras quàm prophanas historias complectentes (Basel, 1559).

Chroniques de France (Paris, Jean Maurand for Antoine Vérard, 1493).

Gregory of Tours. French bishop; ca. 538–94.

Gregorii Turonici historiae Francorum libri decem . . . appendix item sive liber XI (Basel, 1568).

Hostiensis. Canonist; ca. 1200–1271.

Decretum D. Gratiani, vniuersi iuris canonici pontificias constitutiones, et ca nonicas breui compendio complectens (Venice, 1566).

Joinville, Jean. Historian; 1225–1317.

L’histoire & cronique du treschrestien roy S. Loys, IX. du nom, & XLIIII. Roy de France (Poitiers: De l’Imprimerie d’Enguilbert de Marnef, 1561).

Krantz, Albert. Theologian; ca. 1450–1517.

Chronica regnorum aquilonarium, Daniae, Suetiae, Norvagiae (Argent., apud Ioannem Schottum, 1548).

La Marche [Lamarc], Olivier de. Chronicler; 1425–1502.

Les mémoires (Lyon, 1562).

Landulphus Sagax. Chronicler; fl. 1000.

Historiae miscellae a Paulo Aquilegiensi diacono primum collectae, post etiam a Landulpho Sagaci (Basel, 1569).

Marinaeus, Lucius. Historian; d. 1533.

Cronica d’Aragon (Valencia, 1524).

Marinei opus de rebus Hispaniae memorabilibus (Compl., 1533).

Monstrelet, Enguerran de. Chronicler; ca. 1390–1453.

Le premier, second, tiers volume de enguerran de monstrellet (Paris, 1518).

Mutius, Henricus. Humanist; 16th century.

De Germanorum prima origine, moribus, institutis (Basel, 1539).

Nauclerus, Johannes. Chronicler; d. 1510.

Chronica res memorabiles saeculorum omnium et gentium (Cologne, 1544).

Orosius. Historian; 5th century.

Pauli Orosii . . . Historiarum libri septem (Cologne, 1542).

Otto of Freising. Chronicler; ca. 1114–58.

Ottonis Phrisingensis Episcopi, viri clarissimi, Rerum ab origine mundi ad ipsius usq[ue] tempora gestarum, libri octo (Argentorati, 1515).

Pape, Guy. Jurist; 15th century.

Decisiones Guid. Pape: decisiones parlamenti Dalphinalis Grationopolis (Lyon, 1541).

Papon, Jean. Lawyer; 1505–90.

Du recueil d’arrêts notables des cours souveraines de France (Lyon, 1569).

Paul the Deacon. Historian; ca. 720–99.

Pauli Diaconi Ecclesiae Aquilegiensis Historiographi percelebris De origine et gestis Regum Langobardoru[m] Libri VI (Paris, 1514).

Petrus de Vinea. Diplomat, lawyer; 1190–1246.

Epistolarum . . . libri sex (Basel, 1566).

Procopius. Historian; ca. 500–565.

De bello italico aduersus Gothos (Aquila, ca. 1485).

Ritius, Michael. Historian; fl. 1500.

Michaelis Ritii . . . De regibus Francorum: lib. III (Basel, 1534).

Salvian. Bishop of Marseilles; ca. 400–484.

D. Saluiani Massyliensis Episcopi, De uero iudicio et prouidentia Dei, ad S. Salonium Episcopu[m] Vienensem libri VIII (Basel, 1530).

Seyssel, Claude de. Historian; 1450–1520.

La grand monarchie de France (Paris, 1541).

Sidonius Apollinaris. Poet; ca. 423–80.

Epistolae et carmina (1542).

Sigebert [of Gembloux]. Benedictine monk; 1030–1112.

Chronicon (Paris, 1513).

Theodosian Code. 5th century.

Codicis Theodosiani Lib. XVI, quam emendatissimi, adjectis quas certis locis fecerat Aniani Interpretationibus. Novellarum Theodosii, Valentiniani, Martiani, Maioriani, Seueri, Libri V. Cum Aniani Interpretationibus. Haec omnia curante Jacobo Cuiacio (Lugduni, 1566).

Trithemius, Johannes. Theologian; 1462–1516.

Compendium, sive Breviarum primi volominis annalium, sive historiarum, de origine Regum & gentis Francorum (Cologne, 1539).

Turnebus, Adrianus. Scholar; 1512–65.

Adversariorum (Paris, 1565).

Turpin, John. Archbishop of Rheims; d. ca. 800.

Germanicarum rerum quatuor celebriores vetustioresque chronographi, earum descriptionem ab orbe condito vsque ad tempora Henrici IIII (Frankfurt, 1566).

Urspergensis [Buchard von Ursberg], Abbot; ca. 1177–1231.

Chronicon Abbatis Vrspergen. A Nino Rege Assyriorvm Magno (1515).

Virgil, Polydore. Historian; 1470–1555.

Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Anglicae historiae libri vigintiseptem (Basel, 1570).

Zonaras, Joannes. Byzantine historian; 12th century.

Annales (Lutetia, 1567).

Compendium historiarum (Basel, 1557).

Zosimus. Historian; fl. ca. 490–510.

Zosimi comitis et exaduocati fisci Historiae nouae libri VI (Basel, 1576).

Zurita, Jeronimo. Historian; 1512–80.

Anales de la Corona de Aragón (Zaragoza, 1580).