CAESAR FREDERICK 



90. children. This king sitteth every day in person to 

 heare the suites of his subjects, but he nor they never 

 speake one to another, but by supplications made in 

 this order. The king sitteth up aloft in a great hall, on 

 a tribunall seat, and lower under him sit all his Barons 

 round about, then those that demaund audience enter 

 into a great Court before the king, and there set them 

 downe on the ground 40. paces distant from the kings 

 person, and amongst those people there is no difference 

 in matters of audience before the king, but all alike, and 

 there they sit with their supplications in their hands, 

 which are made of long leaves of a tree, these leaves 

 are 3. quarters of a yard long, & two fingers broad, which 

 are written with a sharpe iron made for y^ purpose, & 

 in those leaves are their supplications written, & with 

 their supplications, they have in their hands a present 

 or gift, according to the waightines of their matter. 

 Then come ye secretaries downe to read these supplica- 

 tions, taking them & reading them before the king, & 

 if the king think it good to do to them that favour or 

 justice that they demaund, then he commandeth to take 

 the presents out of their hands : but if he thinke their 

 demand be not just or according to right, he commandeth 

 them away without taking of their gifts or presents. In 

 the Indies there is not any marchandise that is good to 

 bring to Pegu, unlesse it bee at some times by chance 

 to bring Opium of Cambaia, and if he bring money he 

 shall lose by it. Now the commodities that come from. 

 S. Tome are the onely marchandize for that place, which 

 is the great quantity of cloth made there, which they 

 use in Pegu ; which cloth is made of bombast woven 

 and painted, so that the more that kinde of cloth is 

 washed, the more livelie they shewe their colours, which 

 is a rare thing, and there is made such accompt of this 

 kinde of cloth which is of so great importance, that a 

 small bale of it will cost a thousand or two thousand 

 duckets. Also from S. Tome they layd great store of 

 red yarne, of bombast died with a roote which they call 



427 



A.D. 



563-81, 



The order of 

 Justice. 



No difference 

 of persons 

 before the King 

 in controver- 

 sies or in 

 justice. 



[II. i. 237.] 



The commodi- 

 ties that are 

 ventured in 

 Pegu. 



