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

300 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
same time they asked for instructions as to how they were
to proceed with regard to each separate article.^ The detailed
answer of the Pope on October 3rd, left the legates free to
lay the libellum before the fathers of the Council, though this
did not mean that they were to put the matter to the vote ;
at the same time they were to make known the Emperor's
letter of June 29th, which left the legates free to select certain
articles from the libellum for consideration. ^ Together with
these instructions was also sent the Pope's opinion as to each
of the articles ;^ this agreed, in all essentials, with the opinion
sent to Rome by the legates on August 27th.* In spite of
the support which he had received from France, Ferdinand I.
did not continue, at that time, to press for the submission
of his libellum, as other matters, and especially the difficulties
about the election of his son, Maximilian, as King of the
Romans, took up all his attention. It was only after this
had been arranged (November 24th) that there came a change.^
In the seven articles, which the theologians discussed from
September 23rd to October 2nd,^ the question whether the
bishops' duty of residence was a divine or an ecclesiastical
precept was not touched upon. However, the subject was
soon broached once more by several, and especially by the
theologian of the Archbishop of Granada. It came still more
^ See Grisar, Disput., I., 391 seq. ; Susta, III., 8 ; Steinherz,
III., 133-
2 SiCKEL, Berichte, II., 125-33. Cf. Steinherz, III., 133;
SusTA, III., 20.
^Printed in Raynaldus, 1562, n. 59, 63; Le Plat, V., 388.
Cf. Steinherz, III., 133, n. 4. A second appendix, in which
Pius IV. takes up a position against the reform decrees decided
upon by the French clergy at Poissy on October 6, 1561, was
published by Susta (III., 20 seq.), who found it among the literary
remains of Seripando.
* Partly in Raynaldus, 1562, n. 62, 58 ; Le Plat, V., 385-8.
The first part, hitherto unpublished, in Steinherz, III., 132 seq.
5 Cf. Helle, 40, 41.
* SeeTHEiNER, II., 135-51 ; Paleotto in Theiner, II., 591 seq. ;
Raynaldus, 1562, n. 90-2 ; Le
Plat, V., 510-6.