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

282 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
belong, had arrived. It was only after the Pope had given
up the proposed mission of new legates, that the deeply
offended Cardinal of Mantua allowed himself to be persuaded
to remain for the time being. ^
On May 25th the legates submitted to the fathers of the
Council, as the result of the dehberations which had taken place
so far, the draft of a decree, in nine reform canons, to be
published at the next Session. ^ On the same day they
reported to Rome the ill-success of their negotiations with
the Spaniards, who demanded that the question of the duty
of residence should be decided at the next Session, or, if that
were not possible, either that the Session should be delayed,
or that they should have a promise that the matter should
be decided at the following one.^ It was only with great
difficulty that Mendo9a, Bishop of Salamanca, who, by ar-
rangement with the legates, had undertaken the task of
mediation, succeeded in dissuading the leader of the Spanish
prelates, the Archbishop of Granada, from his purpose of
making a protest against the postponement of the question.*
Besides this the Spaniards insisted, as they had done previ-
ously, that the Council should be expressly declared to be a
continuation of the former Council of Trent. In this connection
the situation was further aggravated by the unmannerly
attitude taken up by the French envoys, whose leader, de
Lansac, the confidant of Catherine de' Medici, reached Trent
on May i8th. A few days later, his two colleagues, Arnaud
du Ferrier, President of the Parliament of Paris, and Gui
du Faur de Pibrac, Chief Justice of Toulouse, both of whom
were suspected of heresy, also arrived.^ The representatives
of France were received at a General Congregation on May
26th ;
they came with a demand that the Council should be
iC/. SusTA, II., 180.
2 See Theiner, L, 718-22 ; Le
* SusTA, II., 161 seq.
* See Mendg^a, 642 seq.
^ C/. Raynaldus, 1562, n, 44-6 ; Le
Plat, V., 186-9.
Plat, V., 175-85 ; Theiner
I., 720 seq.; Bondonus, 560; Pallavicini, 16, 10 and 11;
Baguenault de Puchesse, 63 seq.