The following year Francesco de' Salviati was chosen as Archbishop-designate of Pisa, and again the Florentines objectedbeing joined by the Pisans, who conspired to prevent him taking possession.

The chapter of Bourges, thinking as the pope thought, elected Peter de la Chatre; and Theobald II., Count of Champagne, took sides for the archbishop elect.

The archbishop halts, the chanting ceases, the Host is elevated, the assembled priests adore it, kneeling without the portal.

[Illustration: THE SCOTCH COULD NOT ENDURE ARCHBISHOP LAUD'S RITUALISTIC PRACTICES, AND JENNY GEDDES

The appointment would have been in every respect a most fortunate one, had it not been suggested by Loménie de Brienne, Archbishop of Toulouse, who thus laid the abbé under an obligation which was requited, to the great injury of France, nearly twenty years afterward, when M. de Vermond, who still remained about the person of his royal mistress, had an opportunity of exerting his influence to make the archbishop prime minister.