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ments, each of which halls contained a number of these wooden huts that comprised a couple of small ground-floor rooms, occupied by the Cardinal, and similar accommodation ahove for his confidential attendants. The Cardinals created by the late Pope had their cells hung with violet cloth, in sign of mourning, while the others had theirs draped in green; and this distinction is still observed.[1] When the Sacred College
- ↑ The ascetic regulations promulgated by Gregory X. (1272) probably remained a dead letter. At all events, in 1351 Clement VI. already modified their stringent restrictions sensibly in his Bull Licet in Const. a fel. record. Gregorio Papa X. Whereas, originally, Cardinals were bound to live and sleep in one common hall with no division of any kind, they were then authorized to stretch plain curtains round their beds—'ut honestius possint quiescere in suis lectis.' So also were they secured the indulgence of one dish a meal however long the election might be protracted, and in addition a good many other gastronomic luxuries, so long as they could be made to pass for condiments. The language of the Bull is amusingly detailed: 'Ac etiam singulis, præter panem, vinum, et aquam in prandio et in cæna, unum duntaxat ferculum, seu missum carnium unius speciei tantummodo, aut piscium, seu ovorum cum uno potagio de carnibus vel piscibus principaliter non confectis et decentibus salsamentis habere valeant, ultra carnes salitas et herbas crudas ac caseum, fructus sive electuaria. Ex quibus tamen nullum specialiter ferculum conficietur, nisi ad condimentum fieret vel saporem.' But no Cardinal was to be so greedy as to
