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THE DUTY OF RESIDENCE. 189<br />

were imprisoned,^ and at <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> year Binarini and<br />

Ormaneto received an order, which <strong>the</strong>y were to carry into<br />

effect with all <strong>the</strong>ir power, to take proceedings against <strong>the</strong><br />

bisho{)s after having warned <strong>the</strong>m, and against all o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

<strong>of</strong>fenders without warning. ^ On Sunday, after <strong>the</strong> pontifical<br />

High Mass, <strong>the</strong> bishops were informed that <strong>the</strong> Pope did not<br />

intend any longer to exhort <strong>the</strong>m to <strong>the</strong>ir duty,^ and in <strong>the</strong><br />

following year, 1568, <strong>the</strong> Pope made inquiries as to how<br />

many bishops, who had not resigned <strong>the</strong>ir sees, were still<br />

in Rome, and sent some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m to <strong>the</strong> Castle <strong>of</strong> St.<br />

Angelo.^<br />

<strong>The</strong> question <strong>of</strong> residence made its appearance once more<br />

during <strong>the</strong> last years <strong>of</strong> Pius V. This time <strong>the</strong> man in whose<br />

hands was placed <strong>the</strong> carrying out <strong>of</strong> this difficult task was<br />

Carniglia. In virtue <strong>of</strong> a Papal edict, which bound all priests<br />

living in <strong>the</strong> Curia to furnish in writing <strong>the</strong>ir names, toge<strong>the</strong>r<br />

with <strong>the</strong>ir benefices and <strong>the</strong>ir native land,^ he drew up a<br />

list <strong>of</strong> all <strong>the</strong> possessors <strong>of</strong> benefices residing in Rome.^ <strong>The</strong>se<br />

<strong>the</strong>n received orders to repair to <strong>the</strong>ir benefices,'^ and those<br />

who failed to obey were forced by Carniglia, acting under<br />

1 *Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> March i, 1567, ibid. 365.<br />

2 *" g gta clomenica ordino a mons. Binarini et all Ormaneto<br />

che intimassero a tutti i vescovi che si trovano qui, la residenza<br />

et procedessero anco contro di loro, di maniera che a questo<br />

s'attende con ogni diligenza, et cosi anco per conto de curati, contra<br />

qualli prima si viene all' esecutione che a citatione come con-<br />

tumaci d' altre intimationi " (B. Pia to Luzzara, December 20,<br />

1567, Gonzaga Archives, Mantua). Cf. *Arco, December 13, 1567,<br />

State Archives, Vienna.<br />

^ *Avviso <strong>of</strong> December 20, 1567, Urb. 1040, p. 164b, Vatican<br />

Library.<br />

* *Avviso <strong>of</strong> March 20, 1568, ibid. 491. For <strong>the</strong> enforcement<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> obligation <strong>of</strong> residence in 1568 cf. Gratiani Epist., 366 ; for<br />

<strong>the</strong> bull <strong>of</strong> July 8, 1568, see infra, p. 217.<br />

5 *Avviso <strong>of</strong> February 8, 1570, Urb. 104 1, p. 224b, Vatican<br />

Library. For a similar but earlier order cf. *Avviso <strong>of</strong> November<br />

9, 1566, Urb. 1040, p. 318, ibid.<br />

* *Avviso <strong>of</strong> December 30, 1570, Urb. 1041, p. 390, ibid.<br />

' *Avviso <strong>of</strong> January 24, 1571, Urb. 1042, p. 12, ibid.

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