Pfeffel, Abrege Chronologique, tom.i.p.229, 296, 317, 324, 420, 430, 500, 505, 509, &c.)] In the revival of the empire of empire of Rome, neither the bishop nor the people could bestow on Charlemagne or Otho the provinces which were lost, as they had been won, by the chance of arms.

But the Romans were free to choose a master for themselves; and the powers which had been delegated to the patrician, were irrevocably granted to the French and Saxon emperors of the West.

The broken records of the times [135] preserve some remembrance of their palace, their mint, their tribunal, their edicts, and the sword of justice, which, as late as the thirteenth century, was derived from Caesar to the praefect of the city.

[136] Between the arts of the popes and the violence of the people, this supremacy was crushed and annihilated.

Content with the titles of emperor and Augustus, the successors of Charlemagne neglected to assert this local jurisdiction.