FOOTNOTES:
[1] Gibbon, vol. viii. p. 20.
[2] Ibid. vol. viii. p. 2. n.
[3] Creasy, History of Ottomans, vol. i, p. 43.
[4] Gibbon, vol. viii. p. 153.
[5] See an Article in the Christian Remembrancer for April, 1855, p. 232.
[6] Creasy, vol. i. p. 327.
[7] Ranke’s Spanish and Ottoman Empires, p. 1.
[8] Gibbon, vol. viii. 28.
[9] Ranke, p. 6.
[10] Ranke, passim.
[11] Ranke, p. 7.
[12] Creasy, vol. i. p. 324.
[13] Gibbon, vol. viii. p. 30.
[14] Creasy, vol. i. p. 112.
[15] Creasy, vol. i. p. 161.
[16] Hulme’s Chapters on Turkish History (in Blackwood, July, 1840,) p. 18.
[17] Von Hammer’s History of the Ottoman Turks, vol. i. p. 193.
[18] Gibbon, vol. viii, p. 93.
[19] See Freeman’s History and Conquests of the Saracens, p. 145.
[20] For proofs that the Ottoman government was really absolute, see Robertson’s Charles V. note 43.
[21] Robertson’s Charles V. note 45.
[22] Creasy, i. p. 334.
[23] Creasy, i. p. 114.