. In the days of the councils a sketch of the life and times of Baldassare Cossa [afterward Pope John the Twenty-third]. the time or place of convocation, in order to take measuresin concert with the cardinals, prelates, and other notable andfaithful men for the union and good governance of HolyMother Church.^ It was clear that he regarded everythingdone during his captivity as done under duress and as void,that he looked upon himself as being by his escape placed onthe same footing as he was on before the siege of Avignonbegan. For the Head of the Church to be kept in confine-ment was inconsi
. In the days of the councils a sketch of the life and times of Baldassare Cossa [afterward Pope John the Twenty-third]. the time or place of convocation, in order to take measuresin concert with the cardinals, prelates, and other notable andfaithful men for the union and good governance of HolyMother Church.^ It was clear that he regarded everythingdone during his captivity as done under duress and as void,that he looked upon himself as being by his escape placed onthe same footing as he was on before the siege of Avignonbegan. For the Head of the Church to be kept in confine-ment was inconsistent with his right and his duty. Benedictregarded himself as having fought a hard fight and havingwon it, and as being entitled therefore to take advantage ofhis victorious position. The cardinals sent two of theirnumber to the King of France to acquaint him with whathad happened, and to urge him to restore to Benedict theobedience of the kingdom. The news of the escape of Pope Benedict was received atParis by the populace with joy; the King and the Dukes were^ Religieux, iii, 84. ~ Ehrle, v. 451 ; vii. 161, ClIATKAr RENAKI). ckSITY ; THE WAY OF CESSION 207 glad of any solution of a situation which had becomeembarrassing. Jean Gerson declared that it was tlie part ofwise men to accept the situation ; he compared the escape ofthe Pope to Jonah issuing from the belly of the whale. Theimplacable Norman Doctors of the University of Paris werealone dissatisfied.^ Pierre dAilly published a work advisingthat a council of the obedience of Benedict be called, that thehonours due to the Pope as the Head of the Church berestored to him, but not those recent privileges and abuseswhich Saint Peter and his followers had never known. TheDuke of Orleans, in the absence of the King and of the Dukesof Eerri and Burgundy, took matters into his own hands. Heordered the Archbishops then in Paris secretly to collect thevotes of their subordinates, and then he called together to theHotel of S
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