From every asylum ruffians sallied forth nightly to plunder and stab.

In no town of Christendom, consequently, was law so impotent and wickedness so audacious as in the ancient capital of religion and civilisation.

On this subject Innocent felt as became a priest and a prince.

He declared that he would receive no Ambassador who insisted on a right so destructive of order and morality.

There was at first much murmuring; but his resolution was so evidently just that all governments but one speedily acquiesced.