[Footnote 76: See the Ceremoniale of Constantine
Porphyrogenitus, l. ii. c. 44, p. 176 - 192. A critical
reader will discern some inconsistencies in different parts
of this account; but they are not more obscure or more
stubborn than the establishment and effectives, the present
and fit for duty, the rank and file and the private, of a
modern return, which retain in proper hands the knowledge of
these profitable mysteries.]