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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER LX: The Fourth Crusade
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14, and Joinville.p.27, 28, edit.

du Louvre.)] [Footnote 61: To avoid the vague expressions of followers, &c., I use, after Villehardouin, the word _sergeants_ for all horsemen who were not knights.

There were sergeants at arms, and sergeants at law; and if we visit the parade and Westminster Hall, we may observe the strange result of the distinction, (Ducange, Glossar.

Latin, _Servientes_, &c., tom.
vi.p.

226--231.)] [Footnote 62: It is needless to observe, that on the subject of Galata, the chain, &c., Ducange is accurate and full.


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