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Finally, the council of ten (a municipal magistracy composed of

nobles, which lasted until the ninety-seventh year of the century

just elapsed,) informed the governor of the state in which things

were, hoping that he would find some remedy. Don Gonzalo,

immersed in the business of war, named a council, upon whom he

conferred authority to fix a reasonable price upon bread, so that

both parties should be satisfied. The deputies assembled, and

after much deliberation felt themselves compelled to augment the

price of it: the bakers breathed, but the people became furious.