Note 083
If a possession of four centuries were not
itself a title, such objection might annul the bargain; but
the purchase money must be refunded, for indeed it was paid.
Civitatem Avenionem emit . . . per ejusmodi venditionem
pecuniâ redundates, &c.
(iida Vita Clement. VI. in Baluz.
tom. i. p. 272. Muratori, Script. tom. iii. P. ii. p. 565.)
The only temptation for Jane and her second husband was
ready money, and without it they could not have returned to
the throne of Naples.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 69