88. See the rustic edict, or rather code, of Charlemagne,
which contains seventy distinct and minute regulations of
that great monarch (in tom. v. p. 652-657). He requires an
account of the horns and skins of the goats, allows his fish
to be sold, and carefully directs that the larger villas
(Capitaneae) shall maintain one hundred hens and thirty
geese, and the smaller (Mansionales) fifty hens and twelve
geese. Mabillon (de Re Diplomatich) has investigated the
names, the number, and the situation of the Merovingian
villas.