Injuries,  however,  offered  by  the  crufaders,
who  even  feized  the  throne  of  Conftanti-
nople,  upon  which  they  placed  an  earl  of
Plandiers,  excited  the  refentment  of  the
Greeks ;  and  their  averfion  f  to  the  papal
fiipremacy  rendered  them  Co  jealous  of  the


*  Lifbon  itieif  was  taken  from  the  Moors,  bv  the  a(C(biDAe  of  an  Englifli  fleet  of  anfaders.   See  the  note,
p.  io8.  '    '.
t  A  Patriarch  of  Conftantinople  declared  pnblSckly  to  the  Pope's  legate.     "  That  he  would  much
*  rather  behold  the  turban  tliaa  the  triple  crown  upon  the  great  altar  of  Condantinople.*'

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971.
Imperial  Calicut,  the.  lordly  feat
Of  the  firft  monarch  of  the  Indian 'ftafe.
