Note 076
Romani autem non valentes nec volentes ultra
suam celare cupiditatem gravissimam, contra papam movere
coeperunt questionem, exigentes ab eo urgentissime omnia
quae subierant per ejus absentiam damna et jacturas,
videlicet in hispitiis locandis, in mercimoniis, in usuris,
in redditibus, in provisionibus, et in aliis modis
innumerabilibus. Quôd cum audisset papa, præcordialiter ingemuit, et se comperiens muscipulatum, &c.
Matt. Paris,
p. 757.
For the ordinary history of the popes, their life and death, their residence and absence, it is enough to refer to the ecclesiastical annalists, Spondanus and Fleury.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 69