[Illustration: Approximate Section and Restoration of The Walls of THEODOSIVS the Second.] In the course of the repairs made at this time, the Gate of the Pegè was restored at the expense of Manuel Bryennius Leontari, as an inscription high up on the back of the southern tower of the gate proclaims:[420] † ΑΝΕΚΑΙΝΙΣΘΗ Η ΘΕΟΣΟΣΤΟΣ ΠΥΛΗ ΑΥΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΖΩΟΔΟΧΟΥ ΠΗΓΗΣ ΔΙΑ ΣΥΝΔΡΟΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΞΟΔΟΥ ΜΑ ΝΟΥΗΛ ΒΡΥΕΝΝΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΛΕ ΟΝΤΑΡΙ ΕΠΙ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΥΣΕΒΕΣΤΑΤΩΝ (or ΕΥΣΕΒΩΝ) ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΡΙΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΠΑΛΑΙΟΛΟΓΩΝ ΕΝ ΜΗΝΙ ΜΑΙ ΕΝ ΕΤΕΙ Μ (or Α) (6946 or 6941). “This God-protected gate of the Life-giving Spring was restored with the co-operation and at the expense of Manuel Bryennius Leontari, in the reign of the most pious sovereigns John and Maria Palæologi; in the month of May, in the year 1438 (or 1433).” [Illustration: Approximate Elevation and Restoration of The Walls of THEODOSIVS the Second.] The Empress Maria who is mentioned in the inscription was the daughter of Alexius, Emperor of Trebizond, and the third wife of John VII. Palæologus, from 1427-1440.[421] Manuel Bryennius Leontari was probably the Bryennius Leontari who defended the Gate of Charisius in the siege of 1453.[422] To the same reign, probably, belonged the work recorded on a tower between the Gate of Charisius and Tekfour Serai. The inscription was fragmentary, consisting of the letters ΕΝΙΣΘΗ Η ΚΟ, evidently ΑΝΕΚΕΝΙΣΘΗ Η ΚΟΡΤΙΝΑ[423] (“The curtain-wall was restored”). The lettering and the form of expression resembled the style of an unmutilated inscription on the walls near the Sea of Marmora, commemorating repairs on that side of the city, in 1448, by George, Despot of Servia;[424] and in view of this resemblance, it is safe to conclude that a part of the money sent by the Servian king to fortify Constantinople against the common enemy was spent upon the land wall. To the period of John VII. Palæologus, probably, must be assigned the inscription which stands on the fifth tower north of the Gate of Charisius:[425] ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΥ ΚΑΒΑΛΑΡΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΑΛΟΝΟΣ “(Tower) of Nicholas Agalon, Cabalarius.” (16) On the first outer tower north of the Golden Gate, and on the outer tower opposite the Gate of the Pempton, the name Manuel Igari was found, placed a little below the inscriptions on those towers in honour of John VII. Palæologus.[426]