they could, for a reasonable sum and in a convenient situation, purchase a place for the burial of their dead. For, before this, all Jews who died were carried to London to be buried. In the same year, by the Divine mercy, pope Alexander and Frederic, emperor of the Romans, were reconciled at Venice, at the Rialto there ; the schism being thereby put an end to, which had now continued in the Church of Rome for ncarly eighteen years. At this reconcilement there were present of the party of our lord the pope, Hunbald, cardinal-bishop of Ostia, William de Pavia, cardinal-bishop of Porto, Walter, cardinal-bishop of Albano, Conrad, cardinal-bishop of Sabina, Manfred, cardinal-bishop of Palestrina. John of Naples, cardinal-priest, Thcodinus, cardinal-priest, Albert, cardinalpriest, Peter de Bona, cardinal-priest, Bosus, cardinal-priest, Vivianus, cardinal-priest, Herenbrand, cardinal-priest, Jacinto, cardinal-deacon, Herdizum, cardinal-deacon, Chinche Chapel, cardinal-deacon, Laborandus, cardinal-deacon, Ilugezun, cardinal-deacon, Reiner, cardinal-deacon, the archbishop of Vienna, the archbishop of Bourges, the archbishop of Milan, the archbishop of Ravenna, the archbishop of Salerno, and count Roger de Andre, on behalf of the king of Sicily. On the side of Frederic, emperor of the Romans, there wore present at the above-mentioned reconciliation the persons undernamed : the archbishop of Magdeburg, Philip, archbishop of Cologne, Christian, archbishop of Mentz, the archbishop of Besancon, the archbishop of Treves, the elector of AVorms, the prothonotary of the emperor, count Henry de Dice, the marquis Albert, and many others. These having all assembled in the city of Venice, on the ninth day before the calends of August, on the vigil of Saint James the Apostle, the abovenamed emperor, as had been previously arranged and agreed upon, came to the church of Saint Nicholas, which is one mile distant from Venice ; and there, both he and the archbishops, bishops, and other principal men of the kingdom of Germany, renouncing their schism, rendered themselves deserving to receive the benefits of absolution from the bishops and cardinals whom our lord the pope had sent for the purpose of absolving them. After this, they came to Venice, where, before the church of Saint Mark, the before-named emperor humbly paid all