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44 HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

city again made <strong>the</strong>ir appearance and renewed <strong>the</strong>ir former<br />

complaints on November 27th. ^ On this occasion <strong>the</strong>y were<br />

listened to to such an extent that some eighty,- or according<br />

to ano<strong>the</strong>r report, as many as a hundred and twenty ^ conclavists<br />

were expelled <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> enclosure. On November<br />

3'^th Fabio Cordelia, a Doctor <strong>of</strong> Law, was appointed Master<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Conclave ;<br />

he had to see that <strong>the</strong> order for reform with<br />

regard to <strong>the</strong> meals <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Cardinals did not remain a dead<br />

letter.^ To <strong>the</strong> Governor <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Borgo was assigned <strong>the</strong> duty<br />

<strong>of</strong> seeing that all <strong>the</strong> rooms adjoining or underneath <strong>the</strong> con-<br />

clave were kept <strong>close</strong>d, so that communication with outside<br />

might be lessened.^<br />

Representatives <strong>of</strong> foreign princes frequently appeared<br />

before <strong>the</strong> conclave to urge speed in <strong>the</strong> election. <strong>The</strong> ambas-<br />

sador <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> King <strong>of</strong> France thus appeared on November 14th, ^<br />

and on <strong>the</strong> 25th <strong>the</strong> Imperial ambassador, Francis von Thurm.'<br />

Vargas had already, on September 27th and again on October<br />

13th, addressed <strong>the</strong> Cardinal' in carefully prepared speeches,<br />

while on December 8th he reappeared before <strong>the</strong>m with a<br />

letter <strong>from</strong> his king,^ and admonished <strong>the</strong>m anew as to <strong>the</strong><br />

Vatican Library) Carafa very much on account <strong>of</strong> his " strani<br />

trattati " ;<br />

he said to him, which pleased most people very much :<br />

" che tal cose non eran'a far in conclavi, ne tra cardinali, et che<br />

molto si maravegliava della sua presontion et audatia con tanto<br />

poco respetto al grado ch'hora teniva et al sacro collegio."<br />

1 GuiDUs, 621.<br />

2 BoNDONUs, 526.<br />

* GuiDUS, 622. According to <strong>the</strong> *Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> December<br />

2, 1 559, 60 conclavists were expelled on Wednesday, November<br />

29, and many o<strong>the</strong>rs on <strong>the</strong> 30 (Urb. 1039, p. 105, Vatican Library).<br />

* BoNDONUS, 526. Bondonus remarks on December 5 : " obser-<br />

vatum, quod pro 111^^ non intromitteretur nisi unum ferculum."<br />

^ Ibid., 526, 529 (on December i and 20).<br />

^ Ibid., 525.<br />

''Ibid., 526; Wahrmund, 262; Susta Pius IV., 140.<br />

* Of November 16, which reached Rome on December 4. It<br />

is printed in Wahrmund, 84 seqq. Cf. Muller, 182 Sagmuller,<br />

100.

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