The loss of large numbers of bestates/b and metochia reduced the Monastery to dire economic straits: in 1610 it owed 81000 aspers* to the governor of Sidirokafsia. When the time-limit for payment had passed without the Monastery being ... One thousand, five hundred monks, led by the captain bEmmanouil Pappas/b, drove the Turks out of Chalcidice. The Vatopaidi Monastery, on the request of the Holy Community, fitted out a ship with provisions and sent it to Provlakas in support ...
