Note 307 — Chapter IX · The State.

Arch. Adm. de Rheims, vol. 1, p. 35. The seven assessors of the Graphio seem to have been originally known as Rachimburgii, who, according to Edict. Chilp. 7 (Pertz. Leg., vol. 2, p. 10), were to be “Antrustiones boni credentes.” They were afterwards known more generally as Scabini, and numbered twelve in the Carlovingian era. Cap. Leg. Sal. Add. ad an. 819, 1, 2, (Do. vol. 1, p. 227). Vide also Ap. Form. Marc. Canc. vol. 2, p. 247, note 3. The number of compurgators appears to have been occasionally seven as well as twelve (Cap. Add. Leg. Rip. ad an. 803, s. 10. Canc. vol. 2, p. 320), and a similar number is also sometimes assigned to the mystic “Peers of Charlemagne,” a body which perhaps may have owed its creation to some confused idea in later times that the Graphio and his assessors were but the reflection of “nostrum placitum generale.” The Sagibaro seems to have been of a lower class than the Rachimburg or Scabinus, for the latter was necessarily an Antrustion or nobleman, the former if ingenuus was raised to this rank by his office, and might be a Lœt (V. Wergilds). As any cause decided by the three Sagibarones could not be reopened before the Graphio, it is evident that they sat in the lesser Courts. Lex. Sal. 56.