Note 118 — Chapter VIII · 1556-1581. THE SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH GENERALS OF THE ORDER.

Paul IV. had hardly expired, when the Romans, highly incensed at the miseries caused by the war, and at the severities of the Inquisition, rose in a body, and with execrations and curses pulled down the statue which had been erected to him in the beginning of his Pontificate, broke into the Inquisition, and destroyed every thing in it.