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appealed to the clemency of the invadinggenerals, among whom the Satsuma baron was the most powerful, and Even the private domains of the cloistered Emperor himself, to saynothing of the manors of the courtiers, were freely entered andplundered, so that public indignation reached a high pitch. THE OATH OF FEALTYOn the 14th of May, 1601, that is to say, shortly after the battle ofSekigahara, all the feudatories were invited to subscribe a writtenoath of loyalty to the Tokugawa. otohistoric period; Board of; Miyoshi Kiyotsura's description;Yoritomo's attitude; in Muromachi period; Department of; and seeMyt

former incomes when fromthe latter had been deducted all charges on account of themaintenance of the fiefs. At this time the military nobles came tothe city only to fight, and the city's population melted away. Unfortunately, the death of the tenth shogun havingjust then occurred, the Yedo Court found it inconvenient to takeaction in remote Yezo. The Mongols, onthe contrary, fought in solid co-operation, their movements directedby sound of drum from some eminence where the commander-in-chiefwatched the progress of the fight.