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 amidst commotion that commonly was at- tended with riot. This locality was the Fleet Street of Rome. Here resided the chief merchants, especially the goldsmiths, from whom the quarter derived its name; for in Rome, as elsewhere, the goldsmiths did business as money-brokers and bankers, figuring as the natural agents and go-betweens in all money operations. While, in May 1335, the Cardinals were shut up for the second time in that year, after the death of Marcelius II., the Pope of reforming promise, whose abrupt death caused so many hopes to be dashed, it is on record how the excited temper of the city as to the issue of the pending election broke into an extraordinary