And On The
Morrow, They Chose Him To Be Their Emperor.
And they set him upon
a black fertre, and after that they lift him up with great
solemnity.
And they set him in a chair of gold and did him all
manner of reverence, and they cleped him Chan, as the white knight
called him.
And when he was thus chosen, he would assay if he might trust in
them or no, and whether they would be obeissant to him or no. And
then he made many statutes and ordinances that they clepe YSYA
CHAN. The first statute was, that they should believe and obey in
God Immortal, that is Almighty, that would cast them out of
servage, and at all times clepe to him for help in time of need.
The tother statute was, that all manner of men that might bare arms
should be numbered, and to every ten should be a master, and to
every hundred a master, and to every thousand a master, and to
every ten thousand a master. After he commanded to the principals
of the seven lineages, that they should leave and forsake all that
they had in goods and heritage, and from thenceforth to hold them
paid of that that he would give them of his grace. And they did so
anon. After he commanded to the principals of the seven lineages,
that every of them should bring his eldest son before him, and with
their own hands smite off their heads without tarrying.
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