As soon as the capitulary was composed, it was sent to the various functionaries of the Frankish empire, archbishops, bishops, missi and counts, a copy being kept by the chancellor in the archives of the palace.
In recent editions in the case of each capitulary it is carefully indicated from what manuscripts it has been collated.
He was moreover directed to prepare for the use of the brothers short tables respecting the times mentioned in the capitulary for the various offices of the church, to make notes upon the matins, the mass, and upon the different orders.
The capitulary of Childebert proscribes those who passed their nights with drunkenness, jesting, and songs.
Thus Charles, in a capitulary added to a revised edition of the Lombard law issued in A.
Emperor revised the laws of all the races that obeyed him, endeavouring to harmonize and correct them, and issued a capitulary singular in subject and tone[72].
From this point the capitularydeals with the "lesser chapters," i.
The capitulary De Villis, from which the following passages have been selected, is a lengthy document in which Charlemagne sought to prescribe clearly and minutely the manifold duties of the stewards in charge of these estates.
It is enforced by the capitulary of 802, which gains its real significance from this fact, and not from the mention of the priestly benediction.
The capitulary hall has been reëstablished after its original lines, and its library, with its high wood ceiling of the time of Louis XVI.
A capitulary of Charlemagne was necessary to prevent certain "liberi homines" from becoming either priests or monks, in order to avoid the military duties attached to their station[20].
There is a capitulary of Charlemagne directed against itinerant penitents, who probably considered the iron chain around their necks an expiation of future as well as past offences.
Footnote 135: See the remarkable capitularyof Lothar I.
This is so without doubt because the capitulary of Soissons already gave that quality to the sin of the woman who alone was considered.
This capitulary regards principally the regulation of monasteries.
In the year 697, at another assembly held at Aix-la-Chapelle, the capitulary for the pacification and government of Saxony was enacted by Charlemagne.
In the year 805, Charlemagne published a capitulary at Thionville, in the department of Moselle, France, (Theodonis villa.
Lotharius, the emperor, published a capitulary in Rome, in 842.
This is a capitulary of Carlmann, the brother of Pippin.
The general capitulary of the year 802, a portion of which is translated here, was issued by Karl after his imperial coronation and his return from Italy.
The capitulary of Kiersy was published by Charles the Bald, just before he left France for Italy, and was intended to regulate the affairs of the kingdom, which was entrusted to his son during his absence.
Now as to the Power of the People, we have this farther Argument extant in the same Capitulary of Charles the Great.
