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THE XlXth SESSION. 277<br />

Council. 1 <strong>The</strong> Pope was unwilling to agree to this, and since<br />

he was being continually urged by <strong>the</strong> Spanish ambassador<br />

to proclaim <strong>the</strong> continuation, ^ he instructed <strong>the</strong> legates on May<br />

13th to proceed with <strong>the</strong> discussion in <strong>the</strong> Council <strong>of</strong> matters <strong>of</strong><br />

dogma and reform as an express continuation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Council<br />

<strong>of</strong> Trent, without paying any attention to <strong>the</strong> remonstrances<br />

which were to be expected <strong>from</strong> France and elsewhere.^<br />

At Trent, on May 14th, in <strong>the</strong> XlXth Session, <strong>the</strong> third<br />

under Pius IV., as had been agreed, nothing was done beyond<br />

<strong>the</strong> publication <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> decree <strong>of</strong> postponement to <strong>the</strong> 4th <strong>of</strong><br />

June, and <strong>the</strong> reading <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mandates. <strong>The</strong> legates. Cardinal<br />

Madruzzo, three patriarchs, eighteen archbishops, a hundred<br />

and thirty-one bishops, two abbots, four generals <strong>of</strong> orders,<br />

twenty-two <strong>the</strong>ologians and eight orators (among <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong><br />

envoy <strong>of</strong> Duke Albert V. <strong>of</strong> Bavaria, who had arrived on May<br />

1st) were present.'*<br />

Three days before <strong>the</strong> XlXth Session <strong>the</strong> developments<br />

in <strong>the</strong> controversy as to <strong>the</strong> duty <strong>of</strong> residence had led <strong>the</strong> Pope<br />

to make an important pronouncement.<br />

Since <strong>the</strong>y were not in possession <strong>of</strong> sufficient information<br />

for <strong>the</strong> treatment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> questions <strong>of</strong> reform, <strong>the</strong> legates had<br />

already, on April nth, sent to Rome a confidential messenger<br />

in <strong>the</strong> person <strong>of</strong> Federigo Pendaso, who was to find out <strong>the</strong><br />

wishes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pope, especially in <strong>the</strong> matter <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> duty <strong>of</strong><br />

residence.^ Pendaso had arrived in <strong>the</strong> Eternal City on April<br />

20th, ^ but his return was so long delayed that reports were<br />

^ See SusTA, II., 155.<br />

"See Vargas to Philip II. on May 4, 1562, in Dollinger,<br />

Beitrage, II., 415 seq.<br />

^ SusTA, II., 155.<br />

" Le cose del concilio la (S. S'''^] travagliano<br />

anco molto," *reports Fr. Tonina on May 13, 1562 (Gonzaga<br />

Archives, Mantua).<br />

* See Raynaldus, 1562, n. 44 ; <strong>The</strong>iner, I., 717. Concerning<br />

<strong>the</strong> Bavarian envoys, Dr. Augustin Paumgartner and Jean<br />

Couvillon S. J. see Knopfler, Kelchbewegung, 100 ; Riezler,<br />

IV., 513 ; Canisii Epist., 450, 562.<br />

5 Cf. SusTA, II., 78-82, and Merkle, II., 483 seq.<br />

* See Arco's report in Sickel, Konzil, 293.

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