There was a great display of confidence and magnanimity on either side. The Sangimignanesi sent a blank sheet of parchment with their seal to Florence, for the conditions of their submission. The Florentines crossed it and sent it back with two other blank sheets, for the Sangimignanesi to fill up as they pleased. Finally, on August 11th, 1353, the terms were arranged in the Palazzo Vecchio at Florence. They were, remarks Pecori, "most honourable terms, alike for those who dictated and those who received them." And this is true, so far as everything connected with the taxes and with the local statutes and customs of the place are concerned; and all of the _terra_ and contado, except the "magnates, or those that are considered such by the statutes of the said town," are to be "in perpetuity, verily and originally, of the contado and of the people, _popolani_ of Florence." One of the articles stipulates that "all the artisans of San Gimignano, who shall wish to be admitted to the matriculation of any Art in Florence, can be received gratuitously by the respective consuls; it being expressly stated that it is lawful to each one of that town to exercise his own art there freely, notwithstanding the ordinances of the Arts of Florence." But, in San Gimignano itself, there is to be a Florentine Podestà with full jurisdiction and power, according to the statutes of the _terra_ itself, and further, an unmistakable note of servitude, it is stipulated "that in the Terra of San Gimignano there be constructed a fortress, at the expense of this Commune, in the place that shall be determined by the commissaries of the Signoria of Florence."[186]