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MORONE AND SPAIN. 33
Morone, who' had successfully defended the exclusive
right of proposition by the legates against the Emperor at
Innsbruck, was as much embarrassed as dismayed at the
compliance shown by Pius IV. to Philip II. in this respect.
The new Spanish envoy, Count di Luna,^ who had arrived
in the place of Pescara, naturally insisted on the fulfilment
of the concessions granted to his sovereign, and all the efforts
of Morone to induce him to change his mind were in vain.
The other legates supported Morone, and in a letter to
Borromeo on June 19th, 1563, they protested against the
limitation of their exclusive right of proposition, expressing
the wish to be recalled from the Council, rather than remain
as witnesses of their own discomfiture.-
Even before this painful incident, there had been no lack
of other occurrences which caused Morone and his colleagues
grave anxiety, and placed them in no small embarrassment.^
Not the least of these was the ever smouldering dispute about
precedence between the French and Spanish envoys, in which
the question was always coming more and more into the
foreground of what place was to be assigned to the repre-
sentative of the Catholic King in ecclesiastical functions,
and how the kiss of peace and the incensation were to be
carried out. In this matter Pius IV. came to the conclusion,
For the progress of Avila's negotiations see Dollinger, Beitrage, I.
489 seq., 517 seq. ; Maurenbrecher, loc. cit., 17 seq. ; Susta, III.,
531 seq., 538 seq.
* For his introduction into the General Congregation on May
5th, 1563, and the question of precedence which then arose, see
BoNDONUs, 567 ; Theiner, II., 280 seq. ; Pallavicini, 21, i.
Luna took up his residence in the Palazzo Roccabruna (now
Sardagna) ; see Swoboda, 23, 49.
* See Pallavicini, 21, 5; Susta, IV., 67 seq., 71 seq., 78 seq.
3 For the question raised by the Archbishop of Lanciano as to
the right of voting by proxies, see Pallavicini, 20, 17, 7 seq. ;
Steinherz, III., 324 seq. ; Susta, III., ; 333 IV., 13 seqq. The
demand for the chahce for the laity on the part of the Bavarian
envoy led to the successful mission of Ormanetto ; see Steinherz
III., 327 seq. : Susta, IV., 23, 28.
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