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CHAPTER VIII.
The Trial of the Archbishop of Toledo, Bartolome
Carranza. The Condemnation of Baius.
The removal of Carranza to the Eternal City is certainly one
of the most striking proofs of the great impression which the
personality of Pius V. had made even upon the greatest men
of his time. It had been in vain for Pius IV. to attempt to
intervene in the discussion of the case of the disgraced arch-
bishop.^ King Philip was of opinion that the authority of
the Spanish Inquisition would suffer if a trial were to be
removed from its jurisdiction, and perhaps decided in a con-
trary sense by the Papal tribunals, while he was convinced
that he could not do without the help of the Inquisition in the
government of his kingdom. ^ He had therefore strained every
nerve, even with Pius V., to keep the trial of the Archbishop
of Toledo in the hands of the Spanish Inquisition. But when
the Pope persisted, the apparently impossible took place,
and the might}' Spaniard gave way. To the amazement of aU
Spain, on December 5th, 1566, the archbishop left Valladolid
in the litter which was to convej^ him to Cartagena. There he
had to wait until April 1567, for the Duke of Alba, who was to
1 See Vol. XVI of this work, 370 seq..
^ Serrano in Corresp. dipl. II. xi : "El
secreto de toda la
resistencia de Felipe II. en este asunto, estaba en hallarse
convencido . . ., que yendo la causa a Roma sufria un golpe
mortal la autoridad de la Inquisicion Espanola." Requesens
pointed out to the Pope that it was the conviction of Philip,
" que non podia guardar sus reinos en la religion y obediencia de
la Sede Apostolica, non conservando la autoridad del Santo
Officio, a quien seria gran nota no confiar S. B. del este negocio."
To Philip II. June i, 1566, ihid. I. 256 ; cf. II. xi. seq.
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