The history of the popes

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PASCHAL II. dying on the 21st of January 1118, the Cardinals and the Roman Clergy met the very next Day in the Benedictine Monaftery at Rome, called the Palladium, and having fent for John of Cajeta, who had retired to Monte Caffino, being a Monk of that Monaftery, they chofe him, with one Confent, on the 25th of the fame Month, when the See had been vacant but three Days.