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

294 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
Visconti had materially contributed, was an intimation which
reached Trent on July i8th. This came from Philip II.
The courier who brought it had taken only eleven days to
make the journey from Madrid to Trent, so as to arrive, if
possible, before the Session, and to prevent an unseemly
attitude on the part of the Spanish prelates. He delivered
to the Marquis of Pescara a letter from the king, of July 6th,
instructing him to inform the Spanish prelates that Philip
II. did not wish any protest to be made in the matter of the
duty of residence, and that, in consideration of the opposition
of the Emperor and France, he did not insist on an explicit
declaration of the continuation of the Council ; it would be
sufficient if it could be gathered from the proceedings them-
selves that this was a continuation of the former Council.^
This decision on the part of Philip II. caused the greatest
satisfaction in Rome, and on August 4th Borromeo gave
instructions to Crivelli, the nuncio in Spain, to thank the king
in the name of the Pope.^
On July 19th the legates submitted to the theologians
thirteen articles r.elating to the holy sacrifice of the Mass.^
A new regulation, drawn up on the 20th, had for its object to
prevent the deliberations from being too protracted.^ The
discussion of the articles relating to the Mass required no less
than thirteen meetings, which took place between July 21st
and August 4th. ^ On August 6th the legates who were, at
that time, highly delighted with the steps taken by Pius IV.
for the reform of the Curia, ^ laid before the General Congre-
^ See SiCKEL, Konzil, 352 seq. ; Mendo§a, 646-7; Susta, II.,
261 seq., 263 seq., 276.
2 SusTA, II., 523 seq.
* See Theiner, II., 58 ; Le Plat, V., 390 seq. ; Pallavicini,
17. 13. 8-
* See Theiner, II., 58 sei. ; Raynaldus, 1562, n. 96; Le
Plat, V., 394-6.
* See Theiner, II., 60-73.
^ See the letter of August 6, 1562, in Susta, II., 296. Con-
cerning the progress of the reforms of Pius IV. ci. Sagmijller,
Papstwahlbullen, 128.