59.) It is not to be wondered at that this most lucrative festival should, ere the next century was half expired, appear to a discreet pontiff to be too long postponed.

And both pope and city agreed in thinking it might well bear a less distant renewal.

Accordingly, Clement VI.

had proclaimed, under the name of the Mosaic Jubilee, a second Holy Year for 1350--viz., three years distant from that date at which, in the next chapter, my narrative will commence.

This circumstance had a great effect in whetting the popular indignation against the barons, and preparing the events I shall relate; for the roads were, as I before said, infested by the banditti, the creatures and allies of the barons.
And if the roads were not cleared, the pilgrims might not attend.