[501] Phrantzes, 291.
[502] Pusculus also is violently hostile to Notaras, and probably for the same reason: because he would not accept the Union.
[503] Ducas, 137.
[504] Crit. (lxiii.) gives a different version. He states that he tried to pass as a Turk, in which his knowledge of the Turkish language aided him: but that he was recognised and flung himself from the walls. His head was cut off and carried to the sultan, who had offered a great reward for his capture dead or alive.
[505] Crit. lxiii and lxvii.
[506] Ibid. lxvii.
[507] Report, p. 940. The houses were empty and bore the marks of the reckless ravages of a savage horde.
[508] Crit. lxix.
[509] Ducas, 142.
[510] Crit. bk. ii. ch. i.