_ 156 _ marry for a second time if their wives die. They have their own bishops and archbishops and they have four periods of fasting: from Pentecost to St. Andrew’s Day, which they call the Lent of the Apostles, the second from 1 August for nineteen days to Our Lady’s Day, which they call the Lent of Our Lady, the third from 15 November until Christmas, which they call the Lent of Advent, and the fourth for Our Lady (?). As the Seigniory did not conquer them, but obtained them by inheritance and abdication, they cannot be dissuaded from these errors [of doctrine]; and they are the enemies of other Christians. Item: There are in this island various classes of people: some are called Paricos, who are like captive slaves, and they serve other freemen, the Matos, who, although they are not slaves, have certain duties and are greatly oppressed. There are others who are Venetians and totally free. In the time of St. Helena, Empress of Constantinople, through various happenings this island was almost uninhabited, and she came to a mountain now called the Mountain of the Cross on account of a piece of the cross she left there, which is now in a great monastery on that mountain, and the object of great veneration. This mountain is between the towns of Lamaka and Limassol. She left some people in the island to live in it; but
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