[283] This form of succession was a very usual one in the Serb lands.

[284] Gelcich, La Zedda, p. 13; Jireček, Handelsstrassen, p. 36 sqq.

[285] These were allowed to lapse in favour of Vojslav Voinović.

[286] Miklosich, Monumenta Serbica, p. 176.

[287] Gelcich, La Zedda, p. 14; also his Memoire storiche sulle Bocche di Cattaro.

[288] Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Bury’s edition, vol. vii. pp. 29-31.

[289] The ancient Tainaros, now called Cirmen.

[290] Klaić, p. 199; Gelcich, La Zedda, p. 80.

[291] After the year 1358 the Reformationes allude to the Rector, and no longer to the Rectores.

[292] I.e. when his own acts or the election of one of his relatives was under discussion.