[Footnote 59: The Greeks obtained, with much difficulty,
that instead of provisions, money should be distributed,
four florins per month to the persons of honorable rank, and
three florins to their servants, with an addition of thirty
more to the emperor, twenty-five to the patriarch, and
twenty to the prince, or despot, Demetrius. The payment of
the first month amounted to 691 florins, a sum which will
not allow us to reckon above 200 Greeks of every condition.
(Syropulus, p. 104, 105.) On the 20th October, 1438, there
was an arrear of four months; in April, 1439, of three; and
of five and a half in July, at the time of the union, (p.
172, 225, 271.)]