egan to remove the religious
and seculars who surrounded the archbishop, by violence, for they
refused to go willingly. On going to take away a secular who had hold
of the lunette of the monstrance, the most holy sacrament fell to the
ground, causing a great scandal. The father guardian of St. Francis
began to call out, and beat himself and fell to the ground. With
that the infantry, scandalized, began to be more gentle. There was
one soldier who drew his sword, and turned it on himself, crying:
"It is finished." Although he did not kill himself, he was grievously
wounded. Thus wounded, they took him away for treatment, and at the
same time arrested him as a rioter. Some praised that soldier's act,
but I think that the devil would have laid hold of him as of Judas,
had he died.

That affair had occupied all of Friday until twelve o'clock;
and all that time the bells were ringing the interdict, and the
city was in a great uproar and confusion, which was caused by the
religious. Their purpose seems to have been no other than to arouse
the people; and beyond all doubt they would have succeeded in it,
had not the fidelity of this city been so great, the infantry so
numerous, and the military discipline so strict. Saturday, May 10,
was already dawning; and, at one o'clock at night, the archbishop
ordered a suspension of divine services, of which all the orders and
the other churches were warned. Thereupon the bells stopped ringing,
and the inhabitants were allowed to snatch a little sleep. By this
time most of the people had been driven from the hall where the
archbishop was, some of those who accompanied him leaving him,
for he remained steadfast with the most holy sacrament. But now,
tired out and overcome, it dropped from his hands; although he again
took it whenever he saw any soldier entering; until in the morning,
a Franciscan friar came and put about his neck a reliquary with a bead
of St. Joanna, as if the most holy sacrament--the lunette of which
they fastened with a ribbon to his neck, after removing it from the
base of the monstrance--were not more efficacious. But as that could
not endure, at last the archbishop grew tired and laid aside the most
holy sacrament. They returned it to the convent of St. Francis, whence
it had been taken, with the same irreverence. The archbishop divested
himself of the stole and cope, whereupon the infantry took him outside
the city, and embarked him in a champan which was prepared