having gathered at Kastritzi, they supposedly made oaths of peace. And when the Lacedaemonian celebrated the liturgy with his sackcloth, when the priests call upon the Christians to come forward with fear of God and faith, the lords and brothers came forward and swore, the despot lord Demetrios remained, as we have heard, within the agreements for a time. 39.15 And again he was the same, as if nothing new had happened, oh the forbearance and long-suffering of yours, Christ the King, both toward him and the culprits; and the evils began again, even after yesterday's such dreadful oaths had been dissolved; and each one did what he could against the other, having their hopes, the one in the friendship and help of the amir and the injustice, where he was wronged both in his subjects and his castles, the other in the perjury of the other and in supposedly fighting against the impious. As these things were thus being badly done, the winter of the '60th year also passed.

40.1 And in May of the same year, behold, the amir came against both of them. But when he went straight to Mystras, since the despot was found there, because his brother and enemy was found in Kalamata and was warring against Mantineia, he came down both unwillingly and willingly and was enslaved to him. And the amir, having taken both him and Mystras and having placed a guard, said to the despot: "You, O despot, since matters have come to this for you, you can no longer rule this place; but since we established you to be a father and we established to take your girl as our wife, give this place to us. You and your girl, come with us and we will give you another world, so that you may have the means to live." 40.2 Which he, having accepted even unwillingly, sent both his archons and Turks, so that they might take and bring both his wife the basilissa and his daughter, but also indeed that they might surrender Monemvasia, for they were found there. Of which the one thing happened, for they came out and went willingly to where both the amir and the despot were. 40.3 But the Monemvasians and the one found at their head, Manuel Palaiologos, holding the castle, have given it to the despot lord Thomas, and after this he supposedly gave it to the Pope. 40.4 But the amir, having provided for the basilissa and her daughter, sent them away with some of his own and her men, but he led and brought the despot with him. 40.5 Therefore, having come to Vordonia and Kastritzi, the noble archons of Vordonia, having become afraid, fled, leaving it behind, but those in Kastritzi supposedly resisted and fought for a time, finally they submitted and having come down to be crowned for their brave deeds, some of them he beheaded, others he set on stakes, but Proinokokokas he flayed and finished off, having received a worthy end for his works and deeds. 40.6 And when the amir himself came to the area around Leontari and Leontari itself and found it deserted of people, he departed from it. But at Gardiki, where the people went to be protected as it was stronger, he went and was fought for some time by the Leontaritans. But in the end they were enslaved and all became fodder for the sword, with women and children. 40.7 This their former leaders, the Bochaloi, would have suffered, had not the beylerbey Machumutes arrived first and sought them out, since the wife of Manuel Bochalis was his second cousin, even if he returned evil to him for this. For giving them men, so that they might depart with ease and rest on the road leading to the outside place, passing by Pontikon they found a sailing vessel and deceitfully killing the men of the beylerbey who were leading them away, they embarked and fled to Kerkyra; and they themselves were thus freed from slavery in some way. 40.8 But the father-in-law of Manuel Bochalis, George Palaiologos, but first cousin, as we have previously stated, of the mother of the beylerbey, being thrown into

συναχθέντες εἰς τὸ Καστρίτζιν, ἐποίησαν τάχα ὅρκους εἰρήνης. Καὶ τοῦ Λακεδαιμονίας μετὰ τοῦ σάκκου αὐτοῦ λειτουρ γήσαντος, ὁπόταν τοὺς Χριστιανοὺς μετὰ φόβου θεοῦ καὶ πίστεως προ σελθεῖν ἐπιβοῶσιν οἱ ἱερεῖς, προσελθόντες οἱ αὐθένται καὶ ἀδελφοὶ καὶ ὀμόσαντες, ἔμεινεν, ὡς ἠκούσαμεν, ὁ δεσπότης κὺρ ∆ημήτριος ἐν τοῖς συμπεφωνημένοις μέχρι τινός. 39.15 Καὶ πάλιν ἦν ὁ αὐτός, ὡς οὐδενὸς καινοῦ γεγονότος, ᾢ τῆς ἀνοχῆς καὶ μακροθυμίας σου, Χριστὲ βασιλεῦ, καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺς αἰτίους· καὶ ἤρξαντο πάλιν τὰ κακὰ καὶ ἔτι τῶν χθὲς τοιούτων φρικτῶν ὅρκων λυθέντων· καὶ ἔπραττεν ὁ καθεὶς κατὰ τοῦ ἑτέρου τὸ ἠδύνατο, τὰς ἐλπίδας ἔχοντες, ὁ μὲν εἰς τὴν φιλίαν τοῦ ἀμηρᾶ καὶ βοήθειαν καὶ τὴν ἀδικίαν, ὁποῦ ἠδικήθη εἴς τε τοὺς ὑποχειρίους αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ κάστρα, ὁ δὲ εἰς τὴν ἐπιορκίαν τοῦ ἄλλου καὶ εἰς τὸ κατὰ τῶν ἀσεβῶν τάχα μά χεσθαι. Τούτων οὖν οὕτω κακῶς πραττομένων διέβη καὶ ὁ χειμὼν τοῦ ξη-ου ἔτους.

40.1 Καὶ τὸν Μάϊον τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἔτους, ἰδοὺ καὶ ὁ ἀμηρᾶς ἦλθεν κατ' ἀμφοτέρων. Ἀπελθόντος δ' αὐτοῦ ἐξ ὀρθοῦ εἰς τὸν Μυζηθρᾶν, ἐπεὶ ἐκεῖ εὑρίσκετο ὁ δεσπότης, διὰ τὸ εὑρίσκεσθαι τὸν ἀδελφὸν καὶ ἐχθρὸν αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν Καλαμάταν καὶ πολεμίζοντος τὴν Μαντίνειαν, κατῆλθε καὶ ἀκουσίως ἑκουσίως καὶ ἐδουλώθη εἰς αὐτόν. Λαβὼν δὲ ὁ ἀμηρᾶς καὶ αὐτὸν καὶ τὸν Μυζηθρᾶν καὶ φυλακὴν περιθεὶς εἶπε πρὸς τὸν δεσπότην· Σὺ μέν, ὦ δέσποτα, ἐπεὶ οὕτως ἦλθον εἰς σε τὰ πράγματα, τὸν τόπον τοῦτον πλέον οὐδὲν ἠμπορεῖ νὰ τὸν ἄρχῃς· ἀλλ' ἐπεὶ πατέραν σε ἐστήσαμεν ἔχειν καὶ τὸ κορίτζι σου ἐστήσαμεν λαβεῖν εἰς γυναῖκα μας, τὸν τόπον τοῦτον δὸς ἡμῖν. Σὺ δὲ καὶ τὸ κορίτζι σου ἔλθετε μεθ' ἡμῶν καὶ θέλομέν σας δώσειν ἕτερον κόσμον, εἰς τὸ νὰ ἔχετε νὰ ζῆτε. 40.2 Ἅπερ στέρξας καὶ ἀκουσίως ἔπεμψε καὶ ἄρχοντας αὐτοῦ καὶ Τούρκους, ἵνα καὶ τὴν γυναῖκαν αὐτοῦ τὴν βασίλισσαν καὶ τὴν θυγατέ ραν λάβωσι καὶ φέρωσιν, ἀλλὰ δὴ καὶ τὴν Μονεμβασίαν παραδώσωσιν, ἐκεῖσε γὰρ αὗται εὑρίσκοντο. Ὧν τὸ μὲν ἐγένετο, ἐξῆλθον γὰρ καὶ ἦλθον ἑκουσίως, ἔνθα ἦσαν ὅ τε ἀμηρᾶς καὶ ὁ δεσπότης. 40.3 Οἱ δὲ Μονεμβασιῶται καὶ ὁ εἰς κεφαλὴν εὑρισκόμενος Μανουὴλ ὁ Παλαιολόγος κρατήσαντες τὸ κάστρον δεδώκασιν αὐτὸ τῷ δεσπότῃ κὺρ Θωμᾶ μετὰ ταῦτα καὶ αὐτὸς τάχα τῷ πάπᾳ. 40.4 Ὁ δ' ἀμηρᾶς τὴν μὲν βασίλισσαν καὶ τὴν αὐτῆς θυγατέραν οἰκο νομήσας ἔστειλεν ἔξω μετά τινας τῶν αὑτοῦ καὶ αὐτῆς, τὸν δὲ δεσπότην ἦγε καὶ ἔφερε μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ. 40.5 Ἐλθόντες οὖν εἰς τὴν Βορδώνιαν καὶ τὸ Καστρίτζι, οἱ μὲν εἰς τὴν Βορδώνιαν γενναῖοι ἄρχοντες αὐτῆς φοβηθέντες ἔφυγον ἀφέντες αὐ τήν, οἱ δὲ εἰς τὸ Καστρίτζι τάχα μέχρι τινὸς ἀντισταθέντες καὶ πολεμή σαντες, τέλος προσεκύνησαν καὶ κατελθόντες στεφανωθῆναι ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀνδραγαθημάτων αὐτῶν, οὓς μὲν αὐτῶν ἐκαρατόμησεν, οὓς δὲ εἰς πάλους ἐκάθισε, τὸν δὲ Προινοκοκοκᾶν ἐκδείρας ἐτελείωσεν, ἄξιον τέλος τῶν ἐργασιῶν καὶ πράξεων ἀπολαύσαντος. 40.6 Ἐλθόντος δ' αὐτοῦ δὴ τοῦ ἀμηρᾶ καὶ εἰς τὰ περὶ τὸ Λεοντάρι καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ Λεοντάρι καὶ εὑρὼν αὐτὸ ἔρημον ἀνθρώπων, αὐτὸ μὲν ἀπῆ ρε. Εἰς δὲ τὸ Γαρδίκι, ἔνθα οἱ ἄνθρωποι ὡς ἰσχυρότερον ἀπῆλθον φυ λαχθησόμενοι, ἀπελθὼν ἐπολεμήθη μέχρι τινὸς παρὰ τῶν Λεονταριτῶν. Τέλος δὲ ἐδουλώθησαν καὶ ἐγένοντο πάντες παρανάλωμα μαχαίρας σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ παισί. 40.7 Τοῦτο ἂν καὶ οἴ ποτε ἀρχηγοὶ αὐτῶν Μποχαλαῖοι ἔπαθον, εἰ μὴ φθάσας ὁ μπεϊλαρμπεῒς Μαχουμούτης ἐξεζήτησεν αὐτούς, τῆς γυναικὸς Μανουὴλ τοῦ Μποχάλη δισεξαδέλφης οὔσης αὐτοῦ, εἰ καὶ κακὰ ἀνταπέ δωκεν αὐτῷ ἀντὶ τούτου. ∆ιδοὺς γὰρ αὐτοῖς ἀνθρώπους, ἵνα μετὰ ἀνέ σεως καὶ ἀναπαύσεως ἀπέρχωνται τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν φέρουσαν εἰς τὸν ἔξω τόπον, διερχόμενοι περὶ τὸν Ποντικὸν εὑρόντες πλεύσιμον καὶ δολίως ἀποκτείναντες τοὺς ἀπάγοντας ἀνθρώπους τοῦ μπεϊλαρμπεΐ, ἐμβάντες ἔφυ γον εἰς Κέρκυραν· καὶ αὐτοὶ μὲν ἠλευθερώθησαν τῆς δουλείας ὁπωσδή ποτε. 40.8 Ὁ δὲ πενθερὸς μὲν Μανουὴλ τοῦ Μποχάλη Γεώργιος ὁ Παλαιο λόγος, πρωτεξάδελφος δέ, ὡς προεδηλώσαμεν, τῆς μητρὸς τοῦ μπεϊλαρ μπεΐ, βληθεὶς εἰς