that  the  company  would  lay  down  their  arms  a$
they  had  promifed  3  but  having  come  off  con-
querors in  this  warfare,  and  committed  a  robbery
on  juftice  herfelf,  they  acquired  fo  much  pre-
emption, that,  running  with  great  violence  to
the  gate  of  the  palace  of  the  fignori,  and  find-
ing it  locked,  they  raifed  a  loud  clamour,  that  the
four  lords  of  the  order  of  the  twelve,  and  the  three
of  the  order  of  the  nine,  mould  be  bammed,  and
they  attempted  in  feveral  ways  to  accomplifh  it
by  force  ;  but  finding  them  well  defended,  they
ran  to  the  palace  of  the  Salimbeni,  to  avail  them-
felves  of  their  afliftance  and  authority,  Having
in  the  way  rencountered  Nannuccio  di  Francefco,
who  had  been  a  few  months  before  captain  of  the
people,  becaufe  he  had  upon  that  occafion favour-
ed the  order  of  the  twelve,  they  afTaffinated  him.
The  Salimbeni  would  not  move  nor  intermeddle
in  this  fedition :  they  therefore  took  from  them
the  colours  with  the  enfign  of  the  people,  which,
as  aflbciates  of  that  faction,  they  flil!  held  at  their
window.,  although  they  had  made  a  peace  with
the  other  nobles.  From  the  gonfaloniers  of  Ca-
mullia  and  San  Martino  they  took  likewife  their
ftandards,  and  having  given  them  to  others,  they
returned  to  make  a  frefh  attack  upon  the  palace ;
and  being  repulfed  from  thence,  they  fent  a  party
towards  Camullia  to  attack  the  houfe  of  the  Sa-
limbeni, againft  whom  they  were  bitterly  enraged,
becaufe  they  would  not  concur  in  this  revolution.
