Note 9 — Chapter III · A PRINCE IN HIS OWN DESPITE.
R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain translation
Szeklers (Siculi). The Szeklers were originally a military colony placed, at the beginning of the twelfth century, in the waste lands of Transylvania, which they engaged to defend against the incursions of the pagan Pechenegs, on being exempted from every other obligation.