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Those who think they have received unjust punishment enjoy the right of appeal to the sovereign. They stand by the roadside tapping a small flat drum of hide stretched on a hoop like a battledore. When the envoys first arrive at their hotel, the heir advances with the various high officers, and makes two obeisances.
An E-sa, or commissioner, who is to be sent to a distant province to ascertain the popular feeling, or to report the conducts of certain officers ... receives sealed orders from the king, which he must not open till beyond the city wall ... He bears the seal of his commission, a silver plate having the figure of a horse engraved on it.
"Close communication between the palace and populace is kept up by means of the pages employed at the court, or through officers, who are sent out as the king's spies all over the country.
Olivier de la Marche, l'Estat de la maison etc., t. IV p. 56, zie dergelijke vragen hierboven blz. 60. J.H. Round, The king's serjeants and officers of state with their coronation services, London 1911, p. 41. Le livre des trahisons, p. 27. Rel. de S. Denis, III p. 464s, Juvenal des Ursins, p. 440; Noël Valois, La France et le grand schisme d'occident, Paris, 1896-1902, 4 vol., III p. 433.
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