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THE CARDINAL OF LORRAINE. 303
13th, and with him thirteen bishops, three abbots, and eighteen
theologians, for the most part doctors of the Sorbonne ;
among the bishops were Nicolas de Pelleve of Sens, Jean
Morvillier of Orleans, and Nicolas Pseaume of Verdun ;^
till then there had only been five French bishops at Trent.
The newly arrived dignitaries of France were solemnly introduced
in the General Congregation of November 23rd. On
this occasion Guise made a speech which was universally
admired on account of the elegance of its style and the dignity
of its delivery. He exhorted the fathers of the Council to
refrain from all useless disputes, and to carry out the reform
of the Church. 2 The frank recognition of the Pope's supremacy
with which he concluded, was calculated to remove the
suspicion felt in Rome, on account of the attitade which he
had taken up with regard to the rights of the Holy See.^
The Cardinal of Lorraine had hoped to be included among
the presidents of the Council, but this hope was not fulfilled.
However, from the beginning he occupied a far more important
position than Cardinal Madruzzo, who also did not belong to
1 Cf. BoNDONUs, 562 seq. ; Baluze-Mansi, IV., 271 ; Theiner,
; Susta, III., 66 seq. ; Kasso-
II., 169 seqq. ; Le Plat, VII., 343
wiTZ, xxvii seq.; Pallavicini, 18, 17 ;
Baguenault de Puchesse,
329 seq. Guise took up his residence in the Palazzo a Prato
in the Contrada S. Trinita (destroyed in great part in the fire
of 1843) ; see Swoboda, 23. Pseaume is the author of the
diary on the Council, critically edited for the first time by Merkle
(II., 723 seqq.).
-See Raynaldus, 1562, n. 109-15; Le Plat, V., 549-63;
Theiner, II., 175 seq. ; Pallavicini, 18, 7 and 19, 3 ; Arch,
stor. ItaL, 5th Series, XXXVI., 417 ;
Baguenault de Puchesse,
334 seq. : Sagmuller, Papstwahlbullen, 129 seq. The envoy of
Sigismund Augustus, King of Poland, Bishop Valentin Herborth
of Przemysl, was received in the General Congregation of October
23 (see Raynaldus, '• i 562, n. 106-7 P^ Plat, V., 532-7 Theiner,
;
II., 154 ; Susta, III., 36, 391, 397). Cardinal Altemps had gone
at the end of October to Constance (see Pallavicini, 18, 16).
'To the testimony already cited (c/. Dollinger, Beitrage, I.,
349
Rome, October 21, 1562 (Gonzaga Archives, Mantua).
; Susta, III., 62) must be added a *letter of Tonina, dated