Note 569 — Chapter VI · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS GOVERNMENT

Junis Bey (below, p. 265) says that the Defterdars had 200 slaves each for their courts. Then he speaks of 50 scribes, each with 15 or 20 slaves, and of 25 secretaries who must have been the heads of the bureaus, and who had slaves. Next he mentions the two Rusnamehjis, who had 20 or 25 companions under them. Ramberti, 247, says that the first Defterdar had 1000 slaves in his household, and the second 500. Postel, iii. 69, mentions only one Rusnamehji, but clearly states that he is over the chiefs of the twenty-five bureaus.