There is first one called the _Beylerbey_ of Greece: in this are included all the lands which the Turkish Signor possesses in Europe: this _Beylerbey_ is greater than all the others. He has from feudal grant sixteen thousand ducats a year, and gets more than double this. He sits at the Porte after the Pashas,[778] and is of great repute with everybody. He has under him besides his slaves, who number more than a thousand, a _Defterdar_ with feudal income of three thousand ducats a year; a hundred clerks who keep the books and accounts of the feudal grants assigned to _Subashis_, _Kazis_, _Spahis_, and others; among all of whom are distributed ten thousand ducats a year. Thirty-six _Sanjaks_: these are in obedience to him, and have for feudal income from five to twelve thousand ducats a year each. They are distributed through the provinces: in these they reside only so long as pleases the Signor: he changes them, as seems best to him, from one province to another. Their duty is to rule the _Spahis_, and to have them trained in arms, and to keep them in obedience. Four hundred _Subashis_, who have among them all from feudal income four hundred thousand ducats, and have about five hundred slaves each.[779] Thirty thousand _Spahis_: these are horse soldiery set apart some to the service of the _Beylerbey_, and some to that of all the _Sanjaks_ of Greece. They have from feudal grant two hundred ducats each, and each of them, for every hundred ducats of feudal income, is obliged to maintain an armed man, with horse and lance. And then they have besides the armed man two or four or five servants and horses. These _Spahis_ are all slaves of the Signor, and sons of slaves, and of _Spahis_. Twenty thousand _Timarjis_ who have ten to forty ducats of feudal income each year, and because they do not reach a hundred ducats, they are not called _Spahis_. These have each a horse and two or three servants, and they serve distributed through all the _Sanjaks_ of Greece. The feudal grants are by assignment of land; the income of this assignment they get partly from rent, but the greater part from the tithes of all the income, which Turks as well as Christians pay, and from the poll-tax, which is twenty-five aspers per head from Christians alone, and from the imposts laid on animals, fruit-trees, and other things. These imposts, moreover, are in addition to those which they pay ordinarily to the Signor. Sixty thousand _Akinji_, or mounted adventurers, inscribed for the lands of Greece and obliged to go to war without payment. But they are exempt from any burden, and cities and villages are bound to give them, when they pass through, living expenses only.