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FERDINAND I. 183
that the Pope had openly declared that he intended to hold
a Council, and that he would proceed with its promulgation
as soon as the Emperor, France and Spain were of one mind
concerning it. On April 26th Francis von Thurm reported
to the Emperor that he understood from trustworthy sources
that the Pope would reopen and continue the Council at
Trent, and that money was already being collected to ensure
the carrying into effect of its future deliberations. The
ambassador further states that Cardinals Morone and
Madruzzo had begged him to ask the Emperor to urge on the
Pope in the matter, and that he had replied that His Majesty
had already done so through Count Arco, and that he himself
would omit nothing that pertained to his office.^
On May 2nd, Jean Babou de la Bourdaisiere, the brother
of the French ambassador, made his obedientia in the name of
Francis H. In his reply the Pope remarked that he had
wished to hold the Council since the beginning of his reign,
and that he now proposed to convoke it in the immediate
future.^ He was soon led to adopt a more decided attitude,
I., 23 seqq.). The expression used by the Pope to the Polish
envoy has not the meaning which Voss (p. 30) attributes to it
it does not prove that the Pope's first zeal for the Council had
" gone to sleep " for the clause " si opus videbitur " does not
appear in the brief to the King of Poland, of March 22 (Theiner,
Monumenta Poloniae, II., 597). The supposition of Voss that
Pius IV. had only occasionally shown an outward zeal, is not in
keeping with the Pope's continued efforts. Besides this, Voss
contradicts himself when he writes on p. 32 : " The only thing
that was still done in Rome on the matter of the Council was
that they did not let it quite go to sleep." Dembinski (Ryzm, I.,
31) is of opinion that, not only did Pius IV. not wish to evade
the Council, but that he had already had it in mind before the
question of the French national council arose. For a criticism
of Voss see also Sagmijller, Papstwahlbullen, iii n.
^ See Voss, 33 ; Sickel, Konzil, 40, and especially Ehses,
loc. cit.
2RAYNALDUS, I560, U. 24. Le PlAT, IV., 624. DeMBINSKI,
Ryzm, I., 255. Voss, 33. Ehses, VIII., 16. Cf. Bondonus,
534. An *Avviso di Roma of May 4, 1560 (Urb. 1039, p. 153,
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