I Saw Three Great
Market-Places, Which Were Every Day Crowded Like Fairs, With All Kinds
Of Commodities Exposed For Sale.
[Footnote 39:
This place, called likewise Achin and Achien by Davis,
is commonly called Achen; but in the letters from the king to Queen
Elizabeth, which will be mentioned in the sequel it is called
Ashi. - Astl. I. 259. b.]
The king, called Sultan Aladin, is said to be an hundred years old, yet
is a lively man, exceedingly gross and fat. In his young days he was a
fisherman, of which there are many in this place, as they live mostly on
fish. Going to the wars with the former king, he shewed himself so
valiant and discreet in ordering the king's gallies, that he acquired
the royal favour so much as to be appointed admiral of all the
sea-force, in which he conducted himself so valiantly and wisely, that
the king gave him one of his nearest kinswomen to wife. The king had an
only daughter, whom he married to the king of Johor, by whom she had a
son, who was sent to Acheen to be brought up as heir to his grandfather.
The king who now is, being commander in chief by sea and land, the old
king died suddenly; on which the present king took the child under his
guardianship, against which the nobility protested: but, as he had the
command of the whole armed force, he maintained his point, putting to
death more than a thousand of the nobles, raised the rascal people to be
new lords, and made new laws.
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