There were limits, though; his offer of valuable cloth and his farm as the prerequisite loan for candidacy for a procuratorship was not accepted (Sanuto 31: 183-84, 199; 32: 340, 447, 450, 458; 33: 92; 38: 45; 41: 374-75; 42: 148, 263, 264; 45: 359; 46: 329, 355; 50: 45-46, 182).