their Councils abridged. 259 § 141. CCL. After his Reftauration, An. 836. Ludovicas caufed aCoun- cil at Aquifgrane, to renew the Laws for theReformation of the Clergy and Abbots, with the Inftru&ions and Rules for Kings themfelves at large laid down. And here theydetermined, that all Bifhops hereafter that were Rebels andTraytors, fhould be depofed, and Lay-men anathematized. But they fufficiently minded thePower and Dignityof theBiíhops to be upheld. § 142. There is aTreadle inBinnius, p. 583. in which the Statutes of theSynods of Aquifgrane are opened and confirmedby Scripture. § 143. CCLI. An. 836. Binnius tells us, that in the depofing of the Em- peror, Agobertus, Bifhop of Lyons, and Bernard, Bifhop of Vienne, having beenLeaders with Ebbo, at the Council at Theod. Villa, fled, and the Emperor and all his Sons, fave Lotharius, being hereprefènt at a Council atLyons, they being fummoned, appeared not, andSentence was put off becaufe they were abfent. § 144. An. 839. Pepin the Emperor'sSon dying, he palled byhis difo- bedient Nephew Pepin, and divided that Kingdomof Aquitain only between his Sons Lotharius and Charles; whereupon his Son Ludovicas was offended, and with themof Aquitain raifed Rebellion again, and by a Convention at Cabilone, and after it, reconciliation was made. § 145. The Emperor Ludovicas Pius dying An. 84o. aged 64, his Sons fell together inWars for his Kingdoms. Lotharitts the eldeft, that hadufed his Father fo trayteroufly and unnatu- rally, fought too great a part for himfelf, and came to aWar withLudovic andCharles, who conquered him, and put him to a fhameful flight, An. 841. in whichFight, fay Hiftorians, a greater flaughter was made of the French, than was ever known in the memory of man. This was the man that de- poled his Father for the flaughter of the Subje&s by hisWars againft him. The next year they fought again, and he was again overcome. § 146. CCLII. It's eafie then to conje&ure which way the next Council (which was at Aquifgrane would go : The conquering Princes made the Bifhops their Counfellors, when they had madeLotharius flee out oftheCoun- trey, what they fhould do with his Kingdom ; and, faithBinniess, they recei- ved the anfwer which Nithardas li. r . defcribeth in thefe words , [ ` The Bithops coñfidering the deeds of Lotharius from the beginning, how he had ` driven his Father out of his Kingdom ; how he had made the Chrian People `perjured by his Covetotafnef ; bow oft he had frufirated the Oath he made to ` hot Fathers, and his Brethren how oft, fince his Fathers death, he had' at- s tempted to difinherit his Brethren ; how many Murders, Adulteries,Burnings, s and all kind of heinous deeds the Univerfal Church fuffered byhis moFt wick- ' ed Covetoufnefi : And that heneither had. any knowledge ofgoverning the `Commonwealth, nor could men find any footfteps of goodnefs of will in go- ` verning. For which cautes defervedly, and by thejuFt judgment of God Al -. mighty, they [aid he fled fir.Ft inBattei, and then from his Kingdom There- fore all ( the Bithops) unanimoufly agreeand content, thatfor his wickednefs God hathcall him out,and bath delivered his Kingdom to his Brothers that . L12 are
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