Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

1636 and 1866. 135
Congress. France was suggested as a fitting
country in which such a gathering could be
made on account of the alliance then existing
between its Royal Family and the Stuarts.
Other Anglican divines appear to have impressed
similar sentiments on the envoy, who scrupu
lously transmitted all that bore on this
great question
to Rome. For awhile moderate
counsels were in favour there, and Cardinal
Barberini, having received, with great personal
satisfaction* the information in question, was
instructed not only to commission Panzani to
commend the Anglican prelates and divines for
their farsighted wisdom and Christian hope, but
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be more earnest in enquiry and more energetic
hi collecting all such information as would
enable the Roman authorities to give the question
an impartial consideration and just judgment.
In a second interview with Panzani, the
"
Bishop of Chichester repeated his former dis
course concerning Union, adding that he was
continually employed in disposing
men s minds
for it both by words and writing, as often as he
met with an opportunity. He then again
mentioned the Pope s supremacy, whose feet he
* "
Indeed nothing could redound more to the credit of my
family, since it would be more agreeable to me that such
,an Union should be effected while I am at the head of
affairs, than if the Barberiiiis, upon any other became masters of the whole
account,
kingdom." Letter from
Cardinal Barberini to Panzani, May, 8th 1636.