[160] _Ex Libr. Consilior_, 1325, Aug. 15, and 1326, March 15, _Cons. Roy._ xl., Gelcich, pp. 34, 35. [161] Gelcich, _Reform._ [162] Engel, § 28. [163] Vol. i. 589. [164] Part of Montenegro. [165] A small island at the Narenta’s mouth. [166] _Ad ann._ 1322. [167] A name usually given to Greek priests in the Middle Ages. [168] This story is somewhat confused. Ragusan writers declare that the princess in question was deposed, together with her son, by a rebellious noble, Alexander, who made himself Tsar and offered to place Bulgaria under Servian suzerainty if Stephen secured the fugitives for him. But after Velbužd Michael’s widow fled, and his first wife, Anna, Milutin’s daughter, was placed on the throne jointly with her son Šišman II. by the victorious Serbs. Stephen Uroš died immediately after, strangled by his son Stephen Dušan, who held Bulgaria as a vassal state. Then came the rebellion of Alexander, who forced Šišman and his mother to fly from Bulgaria, and induced Dušan to marry his sister. Anna fled to Ragusa, and perhaps this may be the princess to whom the local historians allude. On the other hand, it does not seem likely that Dušan would wish to capture her, his own kinswoman. See Jireček’s _Geschichte der Bulgaren_, 290-298. [169] _Lib. Ref._, iii. 365. [170] Quoted in Gelcich, _Istituzioni Marittime e Sanitarie della Republica di Ragusa_, Trieste, p. 37. [171] _Ibid._, p. 38. [172] Annali, _ad ann._ 1348. [173] _Mon. Slav. Mer._, iii. 16. [174] _Ibid._, 182, 256, 272. [175] _Ibid._, 274. [176] See also _Lib. Reform._, 155-157, 162, 163, 169, 248, 249; and Resti, _ad ann._ 1349-1350. [177] Horatio Brown, _Venice_, p. 196. [178] _Ibid._, pp. 198-205. [179] Horatio Brown, _Venice_, p. 211. [180] Gelcich, _Ragusa_, p. 44. [181] Engel, Appendix viii. [182] _Lib. Ref._; Gelcich, _Ragusa_, p. 44. [183] From _Astaria_, a mediæval Latin word meaning a flat tract of seacoast. In Du Cange “maritima, campus planus mari adjacens.” [184] Mentioned in 1254. [185] Gelcich, _I Conti di Tuhelj_, p. 22. [186] In 1331 a request was made to the King of Servia “de implorando ab eo castrum de Prisren in custodia, pro securitate mercatorum nostrorum conversantium in Prisren,” but it was refused (Gelcich, _I Conti di Tuhelj_, p. 23). [187] Near Petrovoselo. [188] Jireček, _op. cit._, pp. 13, 14. [189] For the Paulicians, see Conybeare’s _Key of Truth_, and Bury’s edition of Gibbon’s _Decline and Fall_, vol. vi., Appendix 6, p. 540. [190] Jireček, _Geschichte der Bulgaren_, pp. 176 _sqq._ [191] Theiner, _Mon. Slav. Mer._, i. p. 20. [192] Klaić, _op. cit._, iii, iv, v, vii, and viii. [193] _Lib. Ref._, v., April 14, 1319, p. 139. [194] Gelcich, _Ragusa_, p. 21. [195] _Ibid._, 17, 18, 23, 25. [196] Whence the title of the English Duke of Clarence is derived. [197] The documents on this subject are lost, but the privileges are frequently mentioned by later writers.