and the foresaid prefects or chief masters of the king nourished those horses. But also with great busyness they gave [the] necessaries to the board of king Solomon, in their time;
Forsooth the sons of Israel by their number, the princes of meines, the tribunes, and centurions, and prefects, that ministered to the king by their companies of knights, entering in and going out by each month in the year, were sovereigns, each by him-self, upon four and twenty thousand.
and he shall ordain to him tribunes, that is, sovereigns of a thousand, and centurions, that is, sovereigns of an hundred, and earers or tillers of his fields, and reapers of his corns, and smiths of his arms, and of his chariots.