Note 59 — III. FRANKISH AND VENETIAN GREECE (continued 2)

Finlay, IV. 267; Ersch und Gruber, LXXXVI. 131-33; Rev. F. Vyvyan Jago in the Archæologia, XVIII. 83 sqq. I am indebted to the courtesy of the Rev. S. Gregory, the present rector of Landulph, for the following copy of the brass plate there:

Here lyeth the body of Theodoro Paleologus of Pesaro in Italye, descended from ye Imperyall lyne of ye last Christian Emperors of Greece, being the Sonne of Camilio ye Sonne of Prosper the Sonne of Theodoro the Sonne of John ye Sonne of Thomas, second brother to Constantine Paleologus the 8th of that name, and last of yt lyne yt raygned in Constantinople until subdewed by the Turkes; who married with Mary ye daughter of William Balls of Hadlye in Souffolke gent, and had issue 5 children: Theodoro, John, Ferdinando, Maria, and Dorothy & departed this lyfe at Clyfton ye 21st January, 1636.