THE DECLINE AND FALL

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CHAP.LX VI.

verence their legates and nuncios; to assign a pa-lace for their residence, and a temple for theirworship; and to deliver his second son Manuelas the hostage of his faith. For these conde-scensions he requires a prompt succour of fifteengallies, with five hundred men at arms, and athousand archers, to serve against his Christianand mussulman enemies. Paleeologus engagesto impose on his clergy and people the same spi-ritual yoke; but as the resistance of the Greeksmight be justly foreseen, he adopts the two effec-tual methods of corruption and education. Thelegate was empowered to distribute the vacantbenefices among the ecclesiastics who shouldsubscribe the creed of the Vatican : three schools•were instituted to instruct the youth of Constan­ tinople in the language and doctrine of the La-tins; and the name of Andronicus, the heir ofthe empire, was enrolled as the first student.Should he fail in the measures of persuasion orforce, Palteologus declares himself unworthy toreign ; transfers to the pope all regal and pa-ternal authority ; and invests Innocent with fullpower to regulate the family, the government,and the marriage, of his sou and successor. Butthis treaty was neither executed nor published :the Roman gallies were as vain and imaginaryas the submission of the Greeks; and it w'asonlyby the secrecy, that their sovereign escaped thedishonour, of this fruitless humiliation.

The tempest of theTurkish arms soon burstonhis head ; and, after the loss of Adrianople andRomania , he was inclosed in his capital, the vas-