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230 HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

to demand <strong>the</strong> fees which had hi<strong>the</strong>rto been paid for <strong>the</strong><br />

support <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong>ficials <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Curia. Paul IV. had wished<br />

that it should be done gratuitously, and accordingly Pius V.<br />

had <strong>the</strong> question examined anew by Cardinals Morone, Corgna<br />

and Dolera. When <strong>the</strong>se Cardinals reported that some fee<br />

should be demanded, Pius V. was not satisfied with <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

opinion, and in <strong>the</strong> consistory he spoke in severe terms <strong>of</strong><br />

such payments as an abuse which has long been tolerated,<br />

but which he forbade for <strong>the</strong> future ;<br />

henceforth <strong>the</strong> consis-<br />

torial advocates were not to receive more than four scudi<br />

<strong>from</strong> an archbishop who asked for <strong>the</strong> pallium.^ In Poland,<br />

where <strong>the</strong> clergy had a bad name for being covetous <strong>of</strong> money,<br />

<strong>the</strong> inter-nuncio Vincenzo Portico was ordered to grant<br />

Papal dispensations entirely gratuitously ; he must recieve<br />

no payment whatever for <strong>the</strong> drawing up <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> documents. ^<br />

<strong>The</strong> Pope had granted an indulgence in favour <strong>of</strong> Philip 11.<br />

to all those who assisted <strong>the</strong> king with money in his warlike<br />

undertakings against <strong>the</strong> Moors and Turks, but he firmly<br />

rejected <strong>the</strong> proposal to keep part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> funds raised in this<br />

way for <strong>the</strong> needs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Holy See, and this he did so as to<br />

avoid any appearance <strong>of</strong> having made <strong>the</strong> concession in his<br />

own interests.^ Pius V. entirety abolished <strong>the</strong> faculty <strong>of</strong><br />

sending out preachers <strong>of</strong> indulgences which had belonged to<br />

certain churches and hospitals, a thing which had given,<br />

and stiU gave, occasion for many justifiable complaints.^<br />

^ *Arco, February and April 6, 1566, State Archives, Vienna.<br />

Consistorial acta <strong>of</strong> February 15 and April 26, 1566, in Gulik-<br />

EuBEL, II., 47 n. Laderchi, 1566, n. 44.<br />

^ Laderchi, 1569, n. 24, <strong>from</strong> Gabutius.<br />

^Laderchi, 1566, n. 72.<br />

* Bull <strong>of</strong> February 8, 1567, Bull. Rom., VII., 535.<br />

*" N.S. ha<br />

rivocato tutte le indulgenze si puo dir del mondo che<br />

la Spagna con essa revocatione havra gran negotio." (B. Pia<br />

to <strong>the</strong> Duke <strong>of</strong> Mantua, sending him <strong>the</strong> bull, February 22,<br />

1567, Gonzaga Archives, Mantua). Laderchi, 1567, n. 25.<br />

Bull <strong>of</strong> January 2, 1569 against unauthorized letters <strong>of</strong> confession<br />

and indulgences <strong>of</strong> Spanish bishops, in Bull. Rom., VII., 735.<br />

<strong>The</strong> prescriptions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Council concerning preachers <strong>of</strong> indul-<br />

gences, see in sess. 21, c. 9 ; sess. 25, de indulg.

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