[28] The supreme legal authority.
[29] Birdwood, Report on the old records of the India Office.
[30] The value of a ducat is estimated by Col. Yule at about 9s. 6d. of English money.
[31] The tune sung by sailors to-day as they lift the anchor is the same as that sung a thousand years ago by the Venetians as they manned their oars or spread their sails.
[32] Lindsay’s “History of Merchant Shipping.”
[33] The name adopted by the Participazii at the end of the ninth century.
[34] “And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.”—Judges ix. 53.
[35] The Quirini house is now incorporated in the new Fish Market.
[36] The column is now in the Museo Civico.
[37] The Ten could act promptly too. In 1484, one of the Capi crossing the Piazza saw a priest and two soldiers set upon a man with drawn weapons. He ordered their arrest. The same evening the three were hanged by torchlight between the columns.