In return, the King acknowledged the claims of Urban as pope.

The horses of the crusaders, who rode up to the porch of the Temple, wereso the story goesup to the knees in the loathsome stream; and the forms of Christian knights hacking and hewing the bodies of the living and the dead furnished a pleasant commentary on the sermon of Urban at Clermont.

At the end of the cycle Roman culture was turning its back upon ruralism and moving into a culture that was to be chiefly urban during an entire millennium.

His return was congratulated in some very complimentary verses; as was also the arrival of Tomo Chichi; and the head of Oglethorpe was proposed by Mr. Urban for a prize medal, to commemorate his benevolence and patriotism.

In the night, the coffin was carried out of the city secretly to the Cemetery of Callixtus, and there deposited by Urban in a grave near to a chamber destined for the graves of the popes themselves.