before _Ursinus_. The former were greatly addicted to _Ursinus_, and the latter no less attached to _Damasus_. As for the Two Councils, which I have quoted above, they were held some Years after, when the Party of _Damasus_ had universally prevailed, and it was a Crime to acknowlege _Ursinus_. _Jerom_ has been followed by most of the Writers who came after, and the Authority of the other Two quite disregarded, for no other Reason but because they were Schismatics; for they joined _Lucifer_, as I have observed above, and refused to communicate with the Bishops who had signed the Confession of _Rimini_, nay, and with those who communicated with them. [Sidenote: _Great Disturbances in_ Rome, _occasioned by this double Election_.] By this double Election the Citizens of _Rome_ saw themselves, before they were aware, involved in a Civil War. The whole People were divided, some siding with _Damasus_, and some with _Ursinus_; and neither of the Competitors shewed the least Inclination to yield to the other. No Day passed without Skirmishes and Bloodshed; insomuch that _Juventius_ Governor of the City, and _Julian_ the _Præfectus Annonæ_, to put a Stop to the present, and prevent greater Disturbances, agreed to banish _Ursinus_, whose Party seemed less powerful, together with his Two Deacons _Amantius_ and _Lupus_. The Two Authors I have often quoted write, that both _Juventius_ and _Julian_ were bribed by _Damasus_, who, taking Advantage of the Absence of his Competitor, armed his Followers with Clubs and Swords, hoping thus to intimidate the Friends of the exiled Bishop, and bring them in the End to acknowlege him. Seven Presbyters of the Party of _Ursinus_ were seized, at the Request of _Damasus_, in order to be sent into Exile, but rescued by the People of the same Party, and carried in Triumph to the Basilic of _Liberius_; which _Damasus_ no sooner heard, than, arming all his Followers, both Clergy and Laymen, with Clubs, Swords, Axes, _&c._ he marched at the Head of the seditious and enraged Multitude to the Basilic, which he and his Partisans immediately invested, and attacked with the utmost Fury. [Sidenote: _Several Persons massacred._] It was set on fire in several Places; the Doors were forced, the Roof uncovered, and thence Showers of Tiles discharged on the People assembled there: great was the Massacre; One hundred and Sixty Persons, Men and Women, were inhumanly murdered on the Side of _Ursinus_, and a great many more wounded, some of whom died of their Wounds. On the Side of _Damasus_ not one single Person was killed. This Riot began on the 25th of _October_ 366. at Eight in the Morning. [Sidenote: _The Sedition becomes general._]