"While those deputized to find him were searching
the city, others built a gallows in the palace square for his
execution; we having determined that his execution
should be the first to strike terror into those who had
opposed our wishes.
   "He was soon found and hung by the mob from the
gallows by one foot. In less than five minutes he was
torn to pieces, nothing remaining but the foot by which
he had been suspended.
   "The first order issued by Michael di Lando was that
any one who burned or looted a house should be punished
as Ser Nuto had been.
   "He removed the members of the signorv and the col-
leagues and deposed the syndics of the trades. The eight
war commissioners who had assumed to set up a new
signory were ordered to resign, which they did.
   "He then assembled the newly-elected syndics of the
trades and in conjunction with them created a new sir-
nory, composed of four members from the plebeians, two
from the major and two from the minor trades. One of
the four members of the plebeians was the ex-friar, ap-
pointed under his assumed name of Lorenzo di Puccio.
No one ever suspicioned his former connection with the
monastery of Agnoli.
   "Mv brother-in-law was awarded the rentals from
the butcher stalls of Ponte Veccio; Michael di Lando
retained for himself the provostry of Empoli; Sir John
Hawkwood was made Captain General, and I was made
his aid, knighted and placed in command of all merce-
naries.
   "No sooner had order been restored than certain of
the trade unions, much incensed at the prospect of work,
and a majority of the plebeians who seemed better satis-



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