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portant matters in the organization of the Church, was com-
pletely destroyed. The envoys were all the more dismayed,
as the thirty-ninth chapter contained a number of strict
regulations tending to ensure the Uberty of the Church against
the interference and encroachment of the civil power. The
first draft, which was subsequently much modified, was to
the following effect : the princes are forbidden, under pain
of excommunication, all interference in purely spiritual
matters, while the observance of the ancient privileges of
the Church is enjoined on them. The following demands
are made on behalf of the Church : free jurisdiction, free-
in all matters which immediately or mediately concern
the ecclesiastical forum, and, under limitations which were
minutely detailed, exemption from taxes, burdens of state,
and public offices which had been unlawfully imposed. Princes
are not to confer or in any way grant expectancies to prelates
or chapters, and they are to leave untouched ecclesiastical
properties and rights, as well as the properties and rights
of such lay persons as are under ecclesiastical patronage.
The servants, soldiers and horses of princes must not in
future be quartered in the houses of ecclesiastics or monasteries
; the exequatur or so-called placet of the princes must
be unconditionally abolished.
The representatives of Ferdinand I., whose zeal for reform
had, since June, under the influence of the theological
commission, again come to the fore with increased bitterness,^
were the first to hand to the legates their views on the fortytwo
chapters of July 31st. On August 3rd the French and
Portuguese envoys presented their observations, which the
Imperial envoy at once sent to his master. On August 7th,
the Spanish envoy, Count di Luna, submitted his remarks,
and, true to his previous policy of obstruction, demanded
that the reform commission should be made up by nations.^
^ See the so-called third reform libellum of June 5, 1563, in
SicKEL, Konzil, 520 seq. ;
Sagmuller, Papstwahlbullen, 154 seq.
2 See SiCKEL, Konzil, 571 seq. ; Kassowitz, 240 seq. ; Susta,
IV., 140 seq., 149 seq., 158 seq., 163 seqq.