Louis Gayet, Le grand schisme d'Occident Les Origines volume 1 (Paris-Florence-Berlin 1889), "Pièces justificatives", pp. 30-31:

Baliherus de Argentina, de partibus Alemanie, scriptor penitentiarie D. pape Urbani, juravit et deposuit:

1. Quod ipse fuit presens in Urbe, cum fuit celebrata electio D. pape predicti, et vidit quod, illa die qua cardinales intraverunt conclave, fuit magnus populus congregatus in platea S. Petri, et gentes armorum. ET ingressu conclavis aliqui clamabant: "Volumus romanum." et dicebant alia verba que iste non intelligebat, quia ignorat ydioma romanorum. Sed percepit ab aliis quod dicebant: "Romanum volumus vel ad minus italicum."

2. Et sequenti die, de mane, fuit populus congregatus, et multae gentes armatae in platea S. Petri et prope palatium.Et clamabant: "Romanum volumus vel ad minus italicum," ut aliqui referebant sibi, quia ipse non perpendebat illud vulgare romanorum, ut supra dixit. Et ante horam tertiarum, fuit pulsata campana, et aliqui dicebant quod pulsabatur ad congregationem populi, et tunc fuit magna commotio populi et clamabant isti ita terribiliter quod iste testis et omnis qui erant in ecclesia S. Petri timebant.

3. Interrogatus si ipse fuisset in conclavi, si timuisset, ille tunc respondit quod nullus dibitabat quod omnes illi debebant timere.

4. Item, dixit quod cum ingrediebantur cardinales conclave, supplicabant romani huimiliter cardinales, quod haberent recommendatum sanctum populum romanum. Sed post fregerunt portas omnis qui erant extra conclave, et bibebant de vino. Et quere[31]bant oportunitatem ut possent rapere singula, et alia die post horam tertiarum fregerunt romani conclave, et rumpebant portas muratas. Sed post ita omnia vidit quod cardinales intronizaverunt papam et coronaverunt eum et petierunt ab eo beneficia.

Et dum essent cardinales in Anagnia, conficiebantur littere penitentiarie sub nomine et data Domini pape Urbani, et iste testis asseruit quod ipse habebat aliquas litteras de illa data, que erant distribute per summum penetentiarium cardinalem.

5. Item, dixit quod audivit semel a cardinale Lemovicensi [Jean de Cros, Bishop of Palestrina] qui erat penitentiarius, "Certe, Dominus noster papa non vult, sine magna difficultate expedire supplicationes aliquas pro me penitentiario, de quibus eum requiro. Et ego eum non intendo sibi supplicare ex hinc." Sed quicumque indiguerit, vadat ad eum. Et scit a certo quod habebat papa dificiles modos circa cardinales, et dicebat eis verba dura et aspera. Et audivit a Guiraldo de Dompnis, quod cardinales tractabant modos per quos possent deponere istum papam. Viderunt quod non expediebat eis habere illum in summum pontificem, quia nolebat eis facere gratias, et dicebat eis multas injurias.

 

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The witness, Baliherus de Argentina, made the following points:

• He was in the city at the time when the election of Urban VI took place. On the day that the Cardinals entered conclave, he saw that there was a large crowd gathered in the Piazza San Pietro, and armed men..
• As the members of the conclave were entering the Apostolic Palace some people were shouting, "We want a Roman," and other things. He was not able to understand the Roman dialect however, but he learned from others what they were saying, "We want a Roman, or at least an Italian."
• On the following day, in the morning, the people and many armed men were gathered together in the Piazza San Pietro and in the neighborhood of the Apostolic Palace. They were shouting, "We want a Roman, or at least an Italian." Before the hour of terce (9:00) the bell was rung and some people said it was being rung to call out the people. Then there was a huge movement of people and they were shouting so horribly that the witness and all the people who were in the Basilica of St. Peter were afraid.
• Asked whether, if he had been in the Conclave he would have been in a state of fear, he resplied that nobody could doubt that everybody would have been afraid.
• He said that when the Cardinals were entering Conclave, the Romans were humbly supplicating the cardinals that they should keep the interests of the Roman people in mind. But later, all those who were outside the conclave broke down the doors and were drinking the wine. They were looking for an opportunity to steal everything.
• Next day, after the hour of terce, the Romans broke into the conclave, and they broke down the fortified doors.
• But, after all that, he saw that the cardinals had enthroned the pope, and crowned him, and sought benefices from him.
• And, when the Cardinals were in Anagni, letters of the Penitentiary were prepared and dated in the name of Pope Urban. The witness asserted that he himself had some letters with that style which were issued through the Cardinal Major Penitentiary.
• He once heard from Cardinal Jean de Cros, who was Penitentiary, "Indeed, our Lord Pope does not want to issue replies to some supplications which I request from him without a great deal of trouble for me, and I do not intend to ask him from this point on. But whoever wants one, let him go to him."
• The witness knows for certain that the pope was having difficult relations with the cardinals, and was using hard and harsh language with them. He heard from Giraldo de Dompnis that the Cardinals were engaging in proceedings to depose the pope. They saw that it was not good for them to have him as pope, because he did not want to do them favors, and was saying many injurious things to them.