[2] According to Romanin (I. 321) the lira dei grossi was also called
    Lira d’imprestidi, and if the lire here are to be so taken, the
    sum will be 10,000 ducats, the largest amount by far that occurs in
    any of these Polo documents, unless, indeed, the 1000 lire in Sec. 5 of
    Maffeo Junior’s Will be the like; but I have some doubt if such lire
    are intended in either case.

[3] “(Resolved) That grace be granted to the respectable MARCO PAULO,
    relieving him of the penalty he has incurred for neglecting to have
    his water-pipe examined, seeing that he was ignorant of the order on
    that subject.” (See Appendix C.  No. 3.) The other reference, to M.
    Polo, of S. Geremia, runs as follows:—­

[MCCCII. indic.  XV. die VIII.  Macii q fiat gra Guillo aurifici q ipe absolvat a pena i qua dicit icurisse p uno spotono sibi iueto veuiedo de Mestre ppe domu Maci Pauli de Canareglo ui descenderat ad bibendu.]

“That grace be granted to William the Goldsmith, relieving him of the penalty which he is stated to have incurred on account of a spontoon (spontono, a loaded bludgeon) found upon him near the house of MARCO PAULO of Cannareggio, where he had landed to drink on his way from Mestre.” (See Cicogna, V. p. 606.)

[4] Sansovino, Venezia, Citta Nobilissima e Singolare, Descritta, etc.,
    Ven. 1581, f. 236 v.; Barbaro, Alberi; Coronelli, Allante Veneto,
    I. 19.

[5] The word Millio occurs several times in the Chronicle of the Doge
    Andrea Dandolo, who wrote about 1342; and Milion occurs at least
    once (besides the application of the term to Polo) in the History of
    Giovanni Villani; viz. when he speaks of the Treasury of Avignon:—­
    “diciotto milioni di fiorini d’oro ec. che ogni milione e mille
    migliaja di fiorini d’ oro la valuta.” (xi. 20, Sec. 1; Ducange, and
    Vocab.  Univ.  Ital.).  But the definition, thought necessary by
    Villani, in itself points to the use of the word as rare. Domilion
    occurs in the estimated value of houses at Venice in 1367, recorded in
    the Cronaca Magna in St. Mark’s Library. (Romanin, III. 385).

[6] “Also; that Pardon be granted to Bonocio of Mestre for that 152 lire
     in which he stood condemned by the Captains of the Posts, on account
     of wine smuggled by him, in such wise:  to wit, that he was to pay the
     said fine in 4 years by annual instalments of one fourth, to be
     retrenched from the pay due to him on his journey in the suite of our
     ambassadors, with assurance that anything then remaining deficient of
     his instalments should be made good by himself or his securities.  And
     his securities are the Nobles Pietro Morosini and MARCO PAULO
    MILION.”  Under Milion is written in an ancient hand “mortuus.” 
    (See Appendix C, No. 4.)