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SETTLEMENT OF THE TROUBLES. 345 Gregory expressed his regret that he had intrusted to Master Con- rad the enormous powers which had led to a result so lamentable. Mill his decision was delayed. Towards the end of the year 1234 he appealed earnestly to the German bishops for aid in his quarrel with the Eomans, which continued until he made peace with them m April, 1 235. His hands were now free, but it was not until July that he trusted himself to express his indignation. Then he scold- ed most vehemently the Council of Mainz for daring, in the absence of any defenders of the faith, to absolve those whom Conrad had prosecuted, and for sending to him for absolution the murderers, without having first exacted of them full satisfaction for their de- testable crime His sentence upon them is that they shall join the crusade to Palestine when it sets sail the following March giving good security to insure their obedience, and meanwhile they shaU footed H fT" '"'^ '"^ '^" '■^^^"'^ -^f '^^ «"'"e; bare- footed and naked, except drawers, with a halter around the neck and a rod in the hand, and, when the affluence of people is the fw rf ' TT ^'^*^"^^^'^'^^ *« b^ ^'^ouvged by all the priests, while A fT..tri P'"*?""^ P^"^'"^' ^"^ P-^bl'^ly «-f*^ '« thei; guilt. After this they may be absolved.* It is satisfactory to know that the immediate author of the trou- bles met with the fate which he deserved. Conrad Tors, on his return from Rome, endeavored to resume his interrupted labors but the temper of the people had changed, and the victims were no longer unresisting. At Strassburg he summoned the Junker tiorbJl . 'J""" unceremoniously settled the accusa- tion by slaying him. His assistant, the one-eyed John, met an rdMTedT-^'^'^"^ '^ -' ^' ^' ^-^-^-g 61l'lt!S! elr" """^ ""• ^^^-EP'^"- Select. S.CU.. XIIL T. I. No. 607. There would appear not to be ground for the story told by Philippe llousket (Chromque R™ge, 38831-42.-Bouquet, XXIL 55) that Gregory sent I ctdSl Otho to Germany who proceeded to degrade sundry ecclesrastLeonee™i„ the .natter, and raised such a tempest that he was obliged to escape by n" o Mo™ o^' r b "" "'"™ '" ^"'"'^- ^^-^" "-^'-^" "— , 1 e ve" circu! Ution of such a report shows the antagonism excited between Rome and Ger- t Kaltner,p. 173.-Annal Wormatiens. (Hist. Diplom. Frid. H. T. IV. p. 617).