[355] Gelcich, _Balša_, 302; _Dipl. Rag._, v. 21, 1414. [356] Gelcich, _Istituzioni Sanitarie et Marittime_, p. 36. [357] See the Bull of 1373, in Theiner _Mon. Slav. Mer._, i. 398. [358] Gelcich, _Ragusa_, p. 52. [359] De Diversis. [360] See _ante_, pp. 195-7. [361] Gelcich, 46-47. [362] Matteo Saverio Zamagna, quoted in Gelcich, p. 51. [363] The Ragusan small _braccio_ or _lakat mali_ = 51 centimetres, Gelcich, 49-50. [364] Klaić 337-40. [365] _Dipl. Rag._, 202, June 8, 1426. [366] _Ibid._, 206, July 31, 1427. [367] Dec 31, 1427, in Miklosich, 336-50. [368] Resti; _Dipl. Rag._, 215. [369] _Dipl. Rag._, 212, April 30, 1430. [370] _Ibid._, 216, June 18, 1430. [371] _Dipl. Rag._, 220. [372] An account of them occupies the whole of the tenth book of Resti. [373] Matković, _Rad._, 235-36; Klaić, 351-52. [374] _Dipl. Rag._, 228, 230, 236-38, 240. [375] Jireček, _Handelstrassen_, 39 and 40. [376] Klaić, 352-53. [377] “Omnes de progenie ipsius domini Sandali appellata Cosaze,” Glasnik, xiii. 159. [378] Herzeg or Herzog, because he received Imperial investiture, hence the name Herzegovina. [379] Resti, 1435. [380] Jireček, 85. [381] Miklosich, _Mon. Serb._, 409-11; Klaić, 335-36. [382] It is reported by the author of the Anonymous Chronicle that when the Sultan tried to induce the Ragusans by threats and bribes to give up George, they replied: “We should rather give up our city, our wives, and our children than George or his family, for we have nothing but our good faith; and we should do the same with you if you came here under our safe-conduct.” [383] Resti, 1440 and 1441. [384] Resti, _ad ann._, 1441-1443. [385] _Dipl. Rag._, 244, 245. [386] Philippi Callimachi, _De Rebus Vladislai_, lib, i., in Schwandtner’s _Scriptores Rer. Hung._, i. 457; Klaić, 357. [387] _Dipl. Rag._, 266. [388] _Ibid._, 268, 270. [389] Hammer-Purgstall, 453. [390] _Dipl. Rag._, 284, Aug. 13, 1450. [391] Klaić, 380-81. [392] _Ibid._, 382. [393] Miklosich, _Mon. Serb._, 441; according to Resti he had had a quarrel with the city in 1449 concerning the castle of Soko, which he had tried to capture by treachery. [394] Miklosich, 444-47; Klaić, 385. [395] Klaić, 386. [396] _Dipl. Rag._, 274. [397] _Ibid._, 292. [398] Miklosich, 457-60; Klaić, 390. [399] In 1456 Mohammed II. addressed a letter to “the Sandjak Beg of the Duchy and to the Kadi of Novi and Hotač” (Miklosich, 465-69). [400] Appudini, i. 204; Engel, § 639; Luccari, 170. [401] Prof. Bury in the _Cambridge Modern History_, i. p. 68. [402] “Caput illius patriæ et ob mineras belli nervus.” [403] _Dipl. Rag._, 347. [404] _Dipl. Rag._, 353. [405] John Sabota’s letter, quoted by Klaić, 398. [406] Theiner, _Mon. Hung._, ii. 291-92, 297. [407] Klaić, 401. [408] Klaić, 419. [409] Miklosich, 485-91. [410] May 6, 1463, Rački in _Starine_ vi. of the South Slav. Acad., 1 _sqq._ [411] _Ibid._ [412] Rački, _ibid._ [413] Klaić, 433 _sqq._