Codinus, p. 48. Footnote 227: Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 675. Footnote 228: _Ibid._, ii. p. 173. Footnote 229: Codinus, _ut supra_. Footnote 230: Theophanes, p. 634. Footnote 231: Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 567. Footnote 232: _Ibid._, ii. p. 363. Footnote 233: _Itinéraires Russes en Orient_, p. 239. Footnote 234: Manuel Chrys., p 48; Gyllius, _De Top CP._, iv. c. 9; Adolf Michaelis, _Ancient Marbles in Great Britain_, pp. 10-14, translated by C. A. M. Fennell. See Wheler, Grelot, Gerlach, Bulliardus, Spon, and Monograph of Dr. Strzygowski. Footnote 235: The first two bas-reliefs to the north of the gate, and the first and fourth to the south, as superior in workmanship, came very near being removed to England, through the efforts of Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador to the Porte from 1621 to 1628, and of a certain Mr. Petty, who was sent to the East by the Earl of Arundel to procure works of Ancient Art. The finds were to be divided between that nobleman and the Duke of Buckingham. The correspondence on the subject will be found in _The Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe in his Embassy to the Ottoman Porte_, published in London, 1740 (see pp. 386, 387, 444, 445, 495, 512, 534, 535); in Michaelis’ _Ancient Marbles in Great Britain_; and, partially, in Dr. Strzygowski’s _Monograph on the Golden Gate_. “Promise to obteyne them,” wrote Sir Thomas Roe, in May, 1625, “I cannot, because they stand upon the ancient gate, the most conspicuous of the cytte, though now mured up, beeing the entrance by the castell called the Seauen Towers, and neuer opened since the Greek emperors lost yt: to offer to steale them, no man dares to deface the cheefe seate of the grand signor: to procure them by fauour, is more impossible, such enuy they bear vnto us. There is only then one way left; by corruption of some churchman, to dislike them, as against their law; and vnder that pretence to take them downe to be brought into some priuat place; from whence, after the matter is cold and unsuspected, they may be conveyed. I haue practised for the four, and am offered to haue it done for 600 crownes.”