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PHILIP II. AND VARGAS. 63
to the Vatican amid such mighty cries of joy that, as Panvinio
writes, one could scarcely distinguish the thunder of the
cannon, fired in honour of the occasion, from the acclamations
of the people.^
The election had an im pleasant sequel for Vargas. Philip II.
was not pleased with the over-zealous proceedings of his
ambassador, nor with the means which he had employed.
On January 8th, 1560,2 before the result of the conclave was
known in Spain, the king commissioned Francisco de Mendoza
to go to Rome and earnestly urge the Cardinals to hasten
the election. At the same time he gave him a letter for Vargas.
Shortly before the departure of Mendoza, that is on January
8th, the news of the election of Pius IV. arrived, and Mendoza's
journey was abandoned. The letter for Vargas, however,
was still sent to Rome.^
In this important letter'* the king first expresses hi'=: regret
that in spite of the troubled state of Christendom the election
of a worthy Pope had not yet taken place. It caused him
great pain and sorrow that the passions and personal feelings
of the Cardinals should have entailed such consequences.
To combat this recourse should not have been had to such
measures as gifts of money, as had been done by Vargas and
the Viceroy of Naples, and just as little could the promise of
indemnification for Paliano be justified.^ Vargas must never
again make use of such means, but must rather employ such
as would not jeopardize the king's good name. If Carafa
was not satisfied with general promises, such as could be
given without weighing on one's conscience, then the ambassador
had no right to give further pledges in the name
IPANVINIUS, 586.
^ Letter of the Venetian ambassador, Paolo Tiepolo, from
Toledo on January 30, 1560, in Brown, VII., n. 127, p. 148.
^MULLER, 204; SUSTA, PiuS IV., I42.
* HiNOjosA, loi seqq. ; Muller, 204 seqq. ; LIerre, 57 seqq.
^ Concerning the " Chapter " which Vargas had drawn up in
the King's name at the beginning of December {supra p. 47),
Philip as yet knew nothing. Here, therefore, it is a question of
the earUer promise in the second half of November [supra p. 39),