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T?IE ORDERS IN SPAIN. 255
might eventually succeed in winning over the Pope to the total
suppression of the Tercerones, but Pius V. would not give
way, and at last, after many negotiations, the affair was
settled in accordance with his plan.^
Although he had himself asked for the Pope's intervention
in the case of the Spanish Orders, Phihp II. was far from
satisfied with all the Papal provisions. Thus, in a letter to
ZuSiga, his ambassador in Rome, he bitterly complained that
the Pope had given neither him nor the ambassador any previ-
ous notice of the briefs concerning the Premonstratensians,-
nor did he approve of the Carmelites, Trinitarians and Mer-
cedarri being brought back to better ways by the Dominicans.
Pius v., however, adhered to his arrangement on the ground
that the bishops already had enough to do in the administra-
tion of their dioceses, and that, moreover, they knew nothing
of the religious life or rule.^ When, too, the king reverted to
his former wish that the Spanish Cistercians should be separ-
ated from the main body of the Order and formed into a special
congregation, the Pope would not agree to this.'* In other
matters as well there was good reason for complaint in Rome
as to the excessive and usurping interference of Philip in the
affairs of the Orders ;
he had, for example, sent a layman to
preside at the provincial chapter of the Mercedarii, a pro-
ceeding which Pius V. was not slow to censure.^
The arrangements which Pius V. had made for the Third
Order and the Conventuals in Spain soon came into force for
the Low Countries as well.^ In Portugal, too, at the request
1 Corresp. dipL, IV., xli-xlv ; cf. Wadding, XX., 459, 467, 469.
" Letter to Zuniga from Cordova, March 30, 1570, ibid. III., 283.
^ BoneUi to Castagna, December 16, 1569, ibid. 201 ; cf. 262, 323.
* Bonelli to Castagna, April 29, 1570, ibid. 263. Attempts had
already been made in the time of Pius IV. to separate the Spanish
Cistercians from Morimond ; ibid. I., 305.
^ BonelU to Castagna, September 6, 1569, ibid. III., 138.
* The Bull. Rom., VII. , 624, n. mentions the brief of November
2, 1567 (Angelo Aversano). A * brief on the reform of the Obser-
vants (to the same) of October 23, 1567, in Archives of Briefs,
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