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HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

had taken steps for <strong>the</strong> formation <strong>of</strong> well-arranged archives<br />

in <strong>the</strong> new building, ordering all that <strong>the</strong> minutes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> trials<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inquisition should be collected and placed in <strong>the</strong> Holy<br />

Office, and that <strong>the</strong>y were only to be made use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>re.<br />

Pius V. <strong>the</strong>n took steps to provide <strong>the</strong> necessary revenues<br />

for <strong>the</strong> Roman tribunal <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> faith.<br />

If Pius IV. had imitated <strong>the</strong> mildness <strong>of</strong> Paul III. and<br />

Julius III. in his administration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inquisition, it was only<br />

natural that one who was so stem and so zealous for <strong>the</strong> purity<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> faith as was Pius V., should once more adopt <strong>the</strong> policy<br />

<strong>of</strong> Paul IV. It was an expression <strong>of</strong> his holy zeal when,<br />

making use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> very words <strong>of</strong> Paul IV., he declared that<br />

questions <strong>of</strong> faith must take precedence <strong>of</strong> all o<strong>the</strong>r business,<br />

since <strong>the</strong> faith is <strong>the</strong> substance and groundwork <strong>of</strong> Christian-<br />

ity,^ and he stated in a solemn constitution that it would<br />

be his first care to see that heresies, false doctrines, and errors<br />

were removed and banished as far away as possible, for that<br />

^ Decree <strong>of</strong> January 31, 1566, n. 102 ; Pastor, Dekrete, 28 seq.<br />

- On April 3, 1566, <strong>the</strong> tenure <strong>of</strong> Conca (as to this see Tomas-<br />

SETTi, Campagna, II., 387 seqq.; Abbate, Provincia di Roma, II.<br />

[1894], 215), hi<strong>the</strong>rto belonging to Grottaferrata, was assigned in<br />

consistory to <strong>the</strong> Holy Office (Diarium <strong>of</strong> Cardinal Farnese, in<br />

Laderchi, 1566, n. 94. *Bulla dismembrationis tenutae Conchae<br />

etc., tertio nonas April, 1566, registered on May 20, Arm. 52,<br />

t. 5, p. I seqq., Papal Secret Archives. Cf. Bull. O. Praed., V.,<br />

124 ; Lanciani, IV., 23). An *Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> July 7, 1571<br />

(Urb. 1042, p. 84, Vatican Library) announces that <strong>the</strong> Pope in<br />

spite <strong>of</strong> his financial straits has assigned 12,000 scudi to <strong>the</strong><br />

Inquisition <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> sale <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> property <strong>of</strong> Pallantieri. *" Notifi-<br />

catio facta S.D.N. P. et consensus Suae S*''^, quod scuta 3000<br />

partis palatii s. Inquisitionis exponantur seu investiantur in tot<br />

locis montis fidei per M. Lor. Puccio," <strong>of</strong> July 27, 1569, Arm. 52,<br />

t. 3, p. 198, Papal Secret Archives. A *mandate <strong>of</strong> January 11,<br />

1570, assigns a salt mine " pro usu familiae et pauperum carceratorum<br />

" in <strong>the</strong> palace <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inquisition ; ibid. Arm. 29, t. 242,<br />

p. 189. A *mandate <strong>of</strong> November 19, 1567, orders that <strong>the</strong><br />

exemption <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inquisition <strong>from</strong> taxes is to be strictly observed ;<br />

ibid. t. 232, p. II.<br />

^Bull. Rom., VII., 4^^. CJ. Paul IV. in Pastok, Dekrete 16.

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