And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of them that came up at the first, and I found written therein:
Forsoþe God yaf in myn herte, and Y gaderide togidere þe principal men, and magistratis, and þe comyn puple, for to noumbre hem; and Y foond þe book of þe noumbre of hem, þat hadden stied first. And it was foundun writun þer ynne,