de Venice, tom.i.p.67, &c.,) by the softer appellation of _subditi_, or _fideles_.] [Footnote 38: See the xxvth and xxxth dissertations of the Antiquitates Medii AEvi of Muratori.

From Anderson's History of Commerce, I understand that the Venetians did not trade to England before the year 1323.

The most flourishing state of their wealth and commerce, in the beginning of the xvth century, is agreeably described by the Abbe Dubos, (Hist.

de la Ligue de Cambray, tom.ii.p.

443--480.)] [Footnote 39: The Venetians have been slow in writing and publishing their history.