The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn ...

FRANCE AND THE COUNCIL. IQQ
This intervention on the part of Spain, however, did not
succeed in bringing about a change in the pohcy of France.
The Abbot of Manne had arrived at the French court on
September 8th with the Pope's reply. A royal edict of
September loth, 1560, definitely summoned a national council
for January loth, 1561. Antonio de Toledo, who reached the
French court on September 20th, found himself faced by an
accomphshed fact ; he returned as early as September 27th.
The answer of Francis II. which he took back to his sovereign,
renewed, in courteous terms, the previous demands of France,
and especially the refusal of Trent.
The news which in the meantime had arrived in Rome from
France, had occasioned increasing uneasiness. At first the
Pope still hoped to gain something by complaisance, and
declared himself ready to summon the Council, if necessary,
to VerceLi, so as to make it possible to hold it more quickly.
When, however, letters from Cardinal Tournon announced on
September 21st the convention of the French national council
for January loth, 1561, Pius IV. felt himself obliged to take
decisive measures.^ On September 22nd he conferred with
the Cardinals,"* and on the following day he summoned the
^ Cf. Paris, Negociat., 544 seq., 594 seq., 615 seq. ; Le Pi.at, IV.,
650 seq. ; Voss, 82 seqq., 87 seqq. ; Ehses, Berufung des Konzils,
13 seq., 15, and VIII. , 72 seq.
^ Cf. Voss, 96 seq. ; ibid, for Pius IV's endeavours for reform
at that time, especially with regard to the residence of the bishops.
Cf. Massarelli in Merkle, II., 347 seq. ; Laemmer, Melet., 212 seq.
and the *reports of G. B. Ricasoli of September 2, 4, 12, and 13,
1560 (State Archives, Florence) ; the bull de residentia episco-
poriim of September 4, 1560, in the Bull. Rom., VII., 55 seq.
Concerning the anxiety in Rome ;/. also the report of the Port-
guese ambassador of August 22, 1560, in the Corpo dipl. Portug.,
IX., 33. 35.
^ The proceedings in France, in the opinion of Reimann (Hist.
Zeitsch, XXX, 29) " must have vexed the Curia."
* It was proposed to send Tournon to the French court, to
give as much help there as he could ;
^
but he was not to appear
as legate. Voss, 98 ; Ehses, VIII. , 58 n. 5. Cf. ibid., 71 seq.
the letter of Pius IV. to Tournon.
^