The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn ...

DISTURBANCES IN THE CITY. 43
vacancy were also every day making themselves more un-
pleasantly felt outside the conclave. The scarcity in the city
was constantly increasing/ while disputes were now settled
by the sword instead of by proper legal means. ^ General
indignation prevailed at the delay in the election.^ On
November 12th the treasurers informed the Cardinals that
they could raise no more money to pay the troops.'* The
number of soldiers was then reduced, but the officials of the
Apostolic Camera soon complained that the money was not
sufficient even for the reduced number.^ It caused a great
sensation when several Protestants from Carinthia and
Switzerland took advantage of the prevailing lawlessness
to steal into the city in monks' habits and to disseminate
their doctrines in sermons and disputations.® The Romans
felt that their honour was attacked by this occurrence, when
it was reported that the foreign preachers had explained that
the destruction of the buildings of the Inquisition, at the
death of Paul IV., was a sign that there existed leanings
towards the false doctrines among the Roman people. They
loudly called for the intruders to be handed over to the people
for judgment, so that they might vindicate their orthodoxy.'^
There was no lack of exhortations to the Cardinals to come
to a decision at last. Cardinal Cueva, for example, made an
earnest speech on November 12th, immediately after the
voting, in which he laid stress on the disastrous consequences
of the dragging on of the conclave."^ The Conservators of the
1 GuiDUS, 621 (on November 27).
* GuiDUS, 618. Cf. supra p. 31, n. i.
* Cf. Dembi]