1--3, 5, 6, l.

xiii.
c.

8, 10, 23, 35,) and is followed by Nicephorus Gregoras, (l.vi.

c.
5, 7, l.vii.c.1, 9,) who includes the second retreat of this second Chrysostom.] If this transaction be one of the most curious and important of a reign of fifty years, I cannot at least accuse the brevity of my materials, since I reduce into some few pages the enormous folios of Pachymer, [3] Cantacuzene, [4] and Nicephorus Gregoras, [5] who have composed the prolix and languid story of the times.

The name and situation of the emperor John Cantacuzene might inspire the most lively curiosity.