[Footnote 26: He assumes the royal privilege of red shoes or
buskins; placed on his head a mitre of silk and gold;
subscribed his epistles with hyacinth or green ink, and
claimed for the new, whatever Constantine had given to the
ancient, Rome, (Cantacuzen. l. iii. c. 36. Nic. Gregoras,
l. xiv. c. 3.)]