[298] Crit. xli.
[299] Barbaro, p. 24, and Phrantzes.
[300] According to Ducas, Mahomet himself inflicted the blows: an absurd statement.
[301] Ducas, 121; Leonard, Phrantzes, and Nicolo Barbaro.
[302] Hunyadi, according to Phrantzes (p. 327), asked that Silivria or Mesembria, on the bay of Bourgas, should be given to him as the price of his aid, and Phrantzes declares that the emperor ceded the latter place, he himself having written the Golden Bull making the cession. He adds also that the king of Catalonia stipulated for Lemnos as the price of his aid. But no aid came from either.
[303] Barbaro, under April 21; Phrantzes, 246. The tower is called by Leonard Bactatanea. He afterwards writes of the breach near it as being in the Murus Bacchatureus. See, as to its situation, Professor van Millingen’s Byzantine Constantinople, pp. 86, 87.
[304] As the only church in the neighbourhood of the place defended by Justiniani was that of St Kyriakè near the Pempton, the information is valuable as helping to fix the locality where the great gun was stationed. The Moscovite, ch. vii.
[305] The Moscovite, ch. vii., in Dethier’s Siege; Barbaro, p. 27; Crit.
[306] Zarabotane.
[307] Barbaro, p. 27. The account of the fight given by Pusculus is very full and spirited. See note in Appendix as to the question where the naval fight took place.