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THE IMPERIAL AMBASSADOR. I.93
might hold the national council they had spoken of.^ The
Pope laid the answers of the French and Spanish governments
before the Congregation of Cardinals as early as July iith.^
On July 14th the Imperial ambassador, Prospero d'Arco,
had an audience in order to submit the views and requirements
of Ferdinand, which had recently arrived from Vienna, to
the Pope. The latter, who had already, as a Cardinal during
the conclave, made known his inclination to grant concessions
with regard to the chalice for the laity and the marriage of
priests,^ again showed himself on this occasion not disinclined
to make such concessions, at the same time, however, ex-
pressing his doubts as to whether much would be gained
by such a course. Such permissions, without the decision
of a Council, also appeared to him to be of doubtful value,
because difficulties might arise in consequence of them at the
Council, and others might feei that they too could ask for
further concessions independently of a Council."* The Con-
gregation of Cardinals, to which the Pope had submitted the
Emperor's reply of July 15th, also declared that the chalice
for the laity and the marriage of priests could only be granted
by the Council. Arco, who reports this, adds that the removal
of the suspension of the Council of Trent is definitely wished
for in Rome, and that he has it on good authority that if the
Emperor agrees to this, the Pope will give him an assurance
that the wished for concessions shall be made.^ Vargas
1 See Corresp. de Babou de la Bourdaisiere, 9 ; Vargas in
DoLLiNGER Beitrage, I., 337 seq. Voss, 65 seq. Giov. Franc.
Canobio had brought to Rome the letter of June 18 ; see Brown,
VII., n. 172-3.
^ See SiCKEL, Konzil, 86 n. Cf. the *report of Mula of July 12,
1560 (Court Librar}^ Vienna, and Papal Secret Archives) ;
*Avviso
di Roma of July 13, 1560 (Urb. 1039, p. 181, Vatican Library).
' Cf. supra p. 33.
* See Arco's report of July 15, 1560, in Sickel, Konzil, 84 seq.
Cf. Voss, 67.
* See SicKEL, 85. If Arco further declared that in that case the
Pope would also allow that they should treat with the Protestants
upon the " cose determinate in Trento " he was certainly not right.
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