Ramon de Montaner is high authority, for he was "chancelier et maitre rational de l'armee," (commissary of _rations_.) He was left governor; all the scribes of the army remained with him, and with their aid he kept the books in which were registered the number of horse and foot employed on each expedition.

According to this book the plunder was shared, of which he had a fifth for his trouble.p.

197 .-- M.] [Footnote 50: The Catalan war is most copiously related by Pachymer, in the xith, xiith, and xiiith books, till he breaks off in the year 1308.

Nicephorus Gregoras (l.vii.

3--6) is more concise and complete.
Ducange, who adopts these adventurers as French, has hunted their footsteps with his usual diligence, (Hist.