When the Emperour is dead how they chose and make an other.

AND then when the Emperour is dead the seaven linages gather them togither, and they touch his son or the next of his blood, & they say thus, We wyll, and we ordeyne, and we pray thee that thou wilt be our lord & Emperour, and he enquireth of them and sayth, if ye will that I raigne upon you, then must ye doe all that I bidde you to doe. And if he bid that any shal be slaine, he shal be slaine, & they aunswere all with one voyce, y^t ye bid shall be done. Then saith ye Emperour, fro henceforth, my word shal cut as my sword, and then they set him in a chaire, & crowne him, & then all the good townes thereabout send to him presents, so much that he shall haue more than a C Camelles¹ laden with gold and silver, beside other Jewels y^t he shall haue of lords, of precious stones & gold without number & horse, & riche clothes of Camacas² and Tarins,³ & such other.

1: Other editions say 60 chariots.

2: See footnote, ante, p. 168¹.

3: Tartarins, a kind of silken fabric.