ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors present how noble are the houses of the magistrates of the city of Cantam, and they said that among the principal cities, Cantam was one of the least noble. Thus, like as many cities exceed Cantam in nobility, so do the houses of their magistrates surpass in nobility those of the city of Cantam. The houses of the magistrates in the principal cities, before one reaches where the magistrates are, have two very wide and long courts, each one of which would be about the size of a large horserace. In the city of Cansi, which as the authors said is the capital of the province of Cansi, there are a thousand houses in which the kinsmen of the King are lodged, and they are very great and much superior in nobility and beauty to the houses of the magistrates.
