Fall of the Eastern Empire, 142.
Fatality of "Celestinus" as a Papal
title, 88.

Fifty churches after which the Cardi-
nals are designated, 20.

Final definition of the rank of Cardi-
nals, 16.

First entry of the Cardinals into chapel
during a Conclave, 410.

First Pope elected without the inter-
vention of Roman clergy and people,
56.

First "scrutiny" at a Conclave, 411.
traces of the Sacred College, 17.
Food prescribed for Cardinals during
Conclave, 66, 67.

Intrigues of the Cardinal of Rouen at
the Conclave of 1458, 146, 147.
Intrigues at the Conclave assembled
after the death of Paul III., 206—
211.

Magnificence of Boniface VIII., 89.
Marcellus II., brief reign of, 222.
Minute ceremonial at the reception of
new Cardinals, 39, 40, 41.、

Mode of procedure at the "scrutiny,"

418.

Modern exception to the rule requiring
a Conclave, 87.

Mortality among Cardinals in Conclave,
84.

Mortality among Cardinals after the
Conclave that elected Urban VIII.,
312, 313.

Mozetta, the, 41.

N.

Naïvété of Cancellieri, the ecclesiastical
historian, 85.

Cardinal Rohan, 381.

the mediæval religious mind,

70.
Nepotism of Urban VIII., 22.
Nicholas V., beneficent reign of, 142,
143.

Novel method of election decreed by
the Council of Constance, 128.

0.

Oath taken by the Cardinals at the
election of Innocent VII., 126.
Objection of the Cardinals to secret
nominations to their order, 25.
Oligarchic policy of the Catholic
Church, 6.

Olympia Maidalchini, sister-in-law to
Innocent X., influence and corrup-
tion of, 325-330.

death of, 336.
Origin of the term Cardinal, 14.
Original number of the Cardinals, 18..
Outrages committed in Rome at the
death of Sixtus IV., 165, 166.

P.

Papal disregard of precedent as to the
age of new Cardinals, 48, 49.

elections gradually confined to
the Sacred College, 54-57.
Parentage of Francisco della Rovere
(Sixtus IV.), 157.

Patronage in the old Roman world,

40.

Paul III., the last of a particular group
of Popes, 79.

Paul IV., the first of a new epoch, 79.
character of, 230.

Permanent basis of Conclave legisla-
tion, 72.

Petitions addressed to Clement VI, by
the Romans, 97.

Piccolomini Chapel, frescoes represent-
ing the entry of Pius II. into An-
cona in the, 154.

Popes elected without a Conclave, 84.
who reigned during the " Baby-
lonish captivity," 94.
Post-scrutiny, the, 426.

Prediction of the early death of Adrian
V., 84.

Presentation of new Cardinals to the
Pope, 41.

Pressure put on the Conclave at Viterbo
by the citizens, 61.

Proceedings consequent upon the death
of a Cardinal in Conclave, 406.
Prophecy of St. Bridget as to the early
death of Urban V., 100,

Q.

Quiet condition of Rome under Martin
V., 133.

R.

Rapid succession of Cardinals, 21, 22.
"Red cap" literature, 38.-

Red caps granted to monastic Car-
dinals, 37.

Receptions held by new Cardinals, 44,

45.

Re-enactment of the Constitutions of
Gregory X., 87.

Regulations for Papal elections pro-
mulgated by Gregory X., 64-72.
Remarkable Conclave of Nicholas IV.,
84.

Resignation of Gregory XII., 127.
Return of Gregory XI. to Rome, 103.
Revocation of the Constitutions of
Gregory X., 84.

Rome, during the interregnum between
Gregory XV. and Urban VIII., 301,
302.

during a Papal interregnum,
habitual state of, 301.

in the seventeenth century,
population of, 341.

Routine at the death of a pope,
modern, 395.

Schedule, or voting paper, 419.
Schism caused by the severe morality
of Urban VI., 121.

Scrutiny, eight acts of the, 421-424.
Self-election of John XXII., 95.
"Serenissima Joanna," the friend of
the Holy See, 109.
"Sfumata," the, 413.

Sham investiture of Cardinal Orsini at
the Conclave that elected Urban VI.,
"ad placandum populum," 114.
Simoniacal elections, 70, 71.

practices at the election of

Innocent VIII., 168.

Sistine and Paoline Chapels, hostile
camps in the, 286-289.

Six sees after which the Cardinals are
designated, 19.

Sixtus IV., nepotism of, 160, 161.
Sixtus V., 260.

Social position of cardinals in the
Roman world, 29.

"Soggetti Papabili," twenty-one, 347.
Superstition as to the length of the
Papal reign, 85.

Suspected poisoning of Leo X., 184.

T.

Terms of the promulgation of the
election of Gregory VII., 9.

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