The  order  palled  in  a  general  council,  eftablifh-  j  «,gc
ing  the  new  regimen,  in  1385,  and  the  fcnitiny  for
magiftrates  was  made  for  eight  years,  and  the
names  put  into  the  boxes,  a  practice  which  was
analogous  to  that  in  Florence  which  they  called
imborfarion,  which  was  putting  the  names  into
purfes,  to  be  drawn  out  upon  occafion.  Thofe  who
had  now  the  mofc  votes  in  the  o-eneral  council
were  afforted  together  in  forty-eight  ballots,  one
of  which  was  to  be  drawn  every  two  months.  The
fir  ft  draught  was  now  made,  and  the  lot  produced
a  bailor,  in  which  were  the  names  of  Andria  Ci-
eer'chia,  and  nine  others  :  thefe  took  upon  them
the  magiftracy  of  lords  priors  governors.  The
28th  of  March,  1385,  the  tumults  were  quieted,
the  ibldiers  difbanded,  the  fortrefTes  of  the  domi-
nion rendered  to  public  commirlaries,  many  re-
munerated for  their  Cervices,  fireworks  played  off,
and  many  feafts  made,  and  incredible  manifefta-
tions  of  ioy,  and  ambafiadors  fent  to  all  confede-
rated  cities  to  inform  them  that  the  city  was  de-
livered  from  the  tyranny  of  the  rabble,  and  the
palace  cleanfed,  which  had  been  once  thought  an
Augean  ftable.  Twelve  of  the  principals  of  the
conquered  faction  were  put  to  death  by  thecourfe
ofjuilice,  and  thirty  fent  out  to  the  frontiers,  and
the  major  part  of  thofe,  who  had  fled,  declared  re-
bels and  enemies  pro  more  revolutionum ;  and
by  order  of  the  council  of  petitions,  by  authority

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374  Siena,

given  them  by  the  general  council,  their  caftles
were  reitored  to  the  Salimbeni.  But  the  envy  of
fortune,  according  to  the  hiftorian,  and  the  malice
of  their  conftitution,  according  to  truth,  would  not
-  fuffer  this  felicity  to  be  enjoyed  for  one  year.  The
Tolomei  were  now  returned,  and  living  in  the
fame  city  with  the  Salimbeni ;  and  this  fact  alone,
under  fuch  a  plan  of  government,  would  be  enough
to  give  the  reader  an  anticipation  of  what  would
be  the  confequences.  Confpiracies  were  formed
in  the  country  among  the  friends  of  the  exiles,
and  by  companies  of  depredators,  who  began  to  be
troublefome  and  to  do  mifchief  in  the  dominion.
