Now because we have maintenance from the king's
palace
Have posts under the king, to which salaries were annexed, by
which they were supported, and which they had from the king's
exchequer; or "salt" F15, as in the original, some places of
honour and trust formerly being paid in salt; hence, as Pliny
F16 observes, such honours and rewards
were called "salaries":
and it was not meet for us to see the king's
dishonour;
to see any thing done injurious to his crown and dignity, to his
honour and revenues, when we are supported by him; this would be
ungrateful as well as unjust:
therefore have we sent and certified the king;
of the truth of what is before related; and, for the further
confirmation of it, refer him to the ancient records of the
kingdom, as follows.
F15 (xlm) "salem vel sale", Montanus, Vatablus, Michaelis.
F16 Nat. Hist. l. 31. c. 7.