Was he deceived by the Byzantine theme of Lombardy which extended along the coast of Calabria ?] [Footnote 4: They exacted an oath from Thomas Morosini to appoint no canons of St.Sophia the lawful electors, except Venetians who had lived ten years at Venice, &c.

But the foreign clergy was envious, the pope disapproved this national monopoly, and of the six Latin patriarchs of Constantinople, only the first and the last were Venetians.] [Footnote 5: Nicetas, p.

383.] [Footnote 6: The Epistles of Innocent III.

are a rich fund for the ecclesiastical and civil institution of the Latin empire of Constantinople; and the most important of these epistles (of which the collection in 2 vols.

in folio is published by Stephen Baluze) are inserted in his Gesta, in Muratori, Script.