Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 63.3.9

63.3.9

In order to satisfy the Protector, and to remove his suspicion, Akbur ordered the elephant driver to be sent to him to be punished at his discretion, when Beiram Khan caused him to suffer death. Akbur, much incensed at these two instances of his minister's cruelty, came to the resolution of depriving him of office; a measure which required great firmness and much address." Some authors mention a scheme suggested to the King by his nurse to get possession of the seals; while others say, that she discovered it was the Protector's design to seize and confine him; a plot she is stated to have accidentally overheard, in a conversation between Beiram Khan and the Queen-dowager. "This," say they, "was the cause which determined Akbur to quit Agra," but Abool Fuzl does not mention it. He informs us, and with great probability, that the idea of shaking off the trammels of the minister was first communicated to Adam Khan Atka, and Mahim Atka, by the young King, who, tired of tutelage, thought he was capable of acting for himself. When it became known the messengers from Beiram Khan had been imprisoned, his ruin was easily foreseen by every body. A few days after, Akbur issued a proclamation, announcing to his people that he had taken the sole management of affairs into his own hands, requiring that henceforward no orders from court but those issued under his own seal should be obeyed.