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DEMANDS OF THE SPANISH BISHOPS. 263
to be arranged according to the date of their appointment.'
Before the meeting of the General Congregation, the legates
had been successful in settling a difficulty which might have
proved very dangerous for the Council which was on the
point of being opened. On January 5th, the Archbishop
of Granada, Pedro Guerrero, had gone to Seripando to demand,
in the name of the Spanish bishops, that every ambiguity
should be avoided at the opening, and that the Council should
be clearly and definitely designated as a continuation of
the former one. On January nth Guerrero repeated his
demand in the presence of the four legates and Cardinal
Madiuzzo, and threatened to make a protest. The legates
did everything they could to avoid this, and at the last
moment their efforts were crowned with success. The archbishop
withdrew his request, after having been assured by
the legates that no expression would be used at the opening
of the Council which could be taken as a declaration against
continuation ;
the Council would be opened exactly in accord-
ance with the text of the bull of convocation, the declaration
of continuation would follow at the fitting time, and at the
close, the earlier decrees, drawn up under Paul III. and
Julius III. together with the new decisions, would receive
the confirmation of the Pope.^
^ See Theiner, I., 673 seq. ; Paleotto, ibid., II., 530 seq. ;
Raynaldus, 1562, n. 3 seq. Cf. Pallavicini, 15, 15, 6 seq. ;
Musotti in Dollinger, Konzil, II., 5. The brief concerning
precedence, dated December 3 1 , 1561, in Raynaldus, 1561, n. 12 ;
Le Plat, IV., 755; Ehses, VIII., 271. The bull Ad universalis
bears the same date of December 31, 1561, which decides that
the right of voting can only be exercised by those who are present
in person, and not by proxies. Ehses, VIII., 269 seq.
^ Besides the letters from the legates to Borromeo of January
12 and 15, 1562, in Susta, I., 152 seq., 158 seq., cf. Musotti in
Dollinger, Konzil, II., 4 seq. ; Seripandi Comment., 470 seq. ;
Paleotto in Theiner, IL, 530, and the report of Pedro Gonzalez de
Mendoga, Bishop of Salamanca, who acted as mediator, in Dollin-
ger, loc. cit., 64 seq. Cf. the letters of the Bishops of Sutri-Nepi
and Modena to Morone of January 15, 1562, in Ehses, VIII.,
279 seq.