adjournments to one of the largest churches were found necessary, and the inhabitants, setting aside private rivalries, co-operated with one mind for the public safety, mounting guard, and making every exertion to render their city tenable. The impossibility of doing so against the Duke's military levies being however quickly apparent even to the insurgents, an embassy of six was despatched to Rome to beseech the Pope's mediation. Nor did the reaction stop there; a general cry rose for the Prince, or his brother the Cardinal, the opportune arrival of either of whom would have ended the _émeute_. On the 29th, however, the Duchess came with a small suite, and was received with cries of "Long life to the Duke, but death to the _gabelle_!" The efforts of the magistracy and popular leaders to make their peace were unavailing, in consequence of their having sent representations to the Pontiff, and, on the 3rd of February, the Duchess departed without effecting any arrangement, to the infinite annoyance of all parties. The envoys could get no other reply from his Holiness but that they must go home and make submission, and they were followed by a brief from him, enjoining them to lay down arms and seek his Excellency's unconditional pardon. As soon as this had been publicly read by the Gonfaloniere, the people piled their arms in the piazza, and the peasantry dispersed to their country homes. [Footnote 67: The _staro_ or _stajo_ corresponded to a bushel; the amount of a _soma_ is doubtful. A _quatrino_ is 1/5 of a _bajocco_, that is, of a halfpenny in present value. A _bolognino_ was about 7-1/3 farthings. See vol. II., p. 259.] [Footnote *68: In 1562 Guidobaldo had augmented the tax on grain by leave of Pius IV. Cf. UGOLINI, _op. cit._, vol. II., p. 28, and PELLEGRINI, _Gubbio sotto i Conti e Duchi d'Urbino_ in _Boll. per l'Umbria_, vol. XI., p. 239 _et seq._, and esp. CELLI, _Tasse e Rivoluzione_ (Torino, 1892), p. 39.]