[6] “Also; that Pardon be granted to Bonocio of Mestre for that 152 _lire_ in which he stood condemned by the Captains of the Posts, on account of wine smuggled by him, in such wise: to wit, that he was to pay the said fine in 4 years by annual instalments of one fourth, to be retrenched from the pay due to him on his journey in the suite of our ambassadors, with assurance that anything then remaining deficient of his instalments should be made good by himself or his securities. And his securities are the Nobles Pietro Morosini and MARCO PAULO MILION̄.” Under _Milion̄_ is written in an ancient hand “_mortuus_.” (See _Appendix C_, No. 4.) [7] Humboldt tells this (_Examen_, II. 221), alleging _Jacopo d’Acqui_ as authority; and Libri (_H. des Sciences Mathématiques_, II. 149), quoting _Doglioni, Historia Veneziana_. But neither authority bears out the citations. The story seems really to come from Amoretti’s commentary on the _Voyage du Cap. L. F. Maldonado_, Plaisance, 1812, p. 67. Amoretti quotes as authority _Pignoria, Degli Dei Antichi_. An odd revival of this old libel was mentioned to me recently by Mr. George Moffatt. When he was at school it was common among the boys to express incredulity by the phrase: “Oh, what a Marco Polo!” [8] Thibault, according to Ducange, was in 1307 named Grand Master of the Arblasteers of France; and Buchon says his portrait is at Versailles among the Admirals (No. 1170). Ramon de Muntaner fell in with the Seigneur de Cepoy in Greece, and speaks of him as “but a Captain of the Wind, as his Master was King of the Wind.” (See _Ducange, H. de l’Empire de Const. sous les Emp. François_, Venice ed. 1729, pp. 109, 110; _Buchon, Chroniques Etrangères_, pp. lv. 467–470.) [9] The note is not found in the Bodleian MS., which is the third known one of this precise type. [10] Messire Jean, the son of Thibault, is mentioned in the accounts of the latter in the _Chambre des Comptes_ at Paris, as having been with his Father in Romania. And in 1344 he commanded a confederate Christian armament sent to check the rising power of the Turks, and beat a great Turkish fleet in the Greek seas. (_Heyd._ I. 377; _Buchon_, 468.) [11] The document is given in _Appendix C_, No. 5. It was found by Comm. Barozzi, the Director of the Museo Civico, when he had most kindly accompanied me to aid in the search for certain other documents in the archives of the _Casa di Ricovero_, or Poor House of Venice. These archives contain a great mass of testamentary and other documents, which probably have come into that singular depository in connection with bequests to public charities.