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274 HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Benedictine Abbots answered in various ways, <strong>the</strong> question<br />

<strong>the</strong>n arising as to whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>y were to have only one vote,<br />

as in <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Paul III.^ <strong>The</strong> result <strong>the</strong>refore was simply<br />

that a bare majority would come to no decision until <strong>the</strong> Pope<br />

had given his opinion on <strong>the</strong> question. <strong>The</strong> session had been<br />

more excited than any held so far. <strong>The</strong> noise and strife, said<br />

Musotti, was so great that <strong>the</strong> avoidance <strong>of</strong> a schism could<br />

only be ascribed to a miracle.<br />

^<br />

<strong>The</strong> confusion was still fur<strong>the</strong>r increased by disunion among<br />

<strong>the</strong> legates. After <strong>the</strong> voting, Cardinal Gonzaga was inclined<br />

to count <strong>the</strong> votes <strong>of</strong> those who said " yes, with <strong>the</strong> assent <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Pope," with <strong>the</strong> votes <strong>of</strong> those who wished for a definition<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> divine right unconditionally, and <strong>the</strong>n to proceed<br />

without fur<strong>the</strong>r ceremony, but as Cardinals Simonetta and<br />

Hosius justly protested, he was obhged to give up <strong>the</strong><br />

idea.^<br />

<strong>The</strong> legates sent a petition to <strong>the</strong> Pope on <strong>the</strong> very day <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> session, that in view <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> divergence <strong>of</strong> opinion, he would<br />

decide <strong>the</strong> matter himself.* Three days later, Gonzaga and<br />

Seripando sent a kind <strong>of</strong> minority vote to Rome, in which <strong>the</strong><br />

sending <strong>of</strong> such mess<strong>ages</strong> to <strong>the</strong> Pope was deprecated, because<br />

<strong>the</strong> idea that <strong>the</strong>re was a want <strong>of</strong> freedom in <strong>the</strong> Council<br />

would be streng<strong>the</strong>ned among <strong>the</strong> Protestants as well as among<br />

many Catholics. Gonzaga and Seripando <strong>the</strong>refore advised<br />

that <strong>the</strong> Pope should refrain <strong>from</strong> making a decision, and should<br />

1 Seripandi Comment., 484-5. Concerning <strong>the</strong> different<br />

computations in o<strong>the</strong>r authorities, cf. Druffel in <strong>the</strong> <strong>The</strong>ol.<br />

Lit.-Blatt., 1876, 484. Merkle, who has discovered <strong>the</strong> manu-<br />

script remains <strong>of</strong> Paleotto (see Rom. Quartalschrift, XL, 335 seq.)<br />

in <strong>the</strong> Isolani Archives at Bologna, promises (Concil., II., 639)<br />

an exact edition <strong>of</strong> each voting <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> original diary <strong>of</strong> Paleotto.<br />

See also <strong>the</strong> complete conciliar A da <strong>from</strong> April 7 to 20, toge<strong>the</strong>r<br />

with numerous original votes, hi<strong>the</strong>rto unknown, in Ehses, VIII.,<br />

402-65.<br />

^Dollinger, Tagebiicher, II., 12. See also Paleotto in<br />

<strong>The</strong>iner, II., 554 seq.<br />

^ See SusTA, II., 90.<br />

*IUd., 88.

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