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that a strong suspicion of heresy attached to Carranza's name.^
The same view was expressed by the Jesuit, Toledo, who had a
great reputation for learning in Rome,^ and who, in January,
1570, was called in to assist at the discussions, and often had
interviews with the Pope on the subject.^ The archbishop's
friends could only set against this that the erroneous proposi-
tions had been corrected elsewhere in his writings.^ If Carranza
had been willing to ask pardon for his imprudent propositions,
it would certainly have been granted, but he continued to make
complaints of his opponents and to attempt to justify himself,
so that the Pope sent him a severe rebuke.^
In the meantime opinions and rumours, both for and against
the accused, were making themselves heard in Rome. Often
enough, says an eye-witness, one can in a single day see the
wind blowing from all four quarters in this matter.^ For the
most part, however, public opinion favoured Carranza. In
July, 1567, it was rumoured that the case was almost settled
in his favour, and that very soon the task of passing a judgment
on his doctrines would be referred to the ordinary Roman
courts, and that the archbishop would be given quarters in
one of the monasteries of Rome instead of in the Castle of
St. Angelo. When none of these things came to pass a fresh
rumour was current that a decision would be arrived at before
Christmas." while similar reports recurred again and again
during the years that followed.^ The Pope himself wrote to
1 Ihid. IV., xvi.
^ Ibid, xvii., n.
^ Ibid, xiii, xxi. Zuniga thought that Toledo, and the Jesuits
generally were predisposed in favour of Carranza ; ibid. xiii.
* Zuniga to Philip II., July 13, 1571, ibid. 389.
* Corresp. dipL, IV., ix., n.
® Ibid. viii.
' See the extracts from the Avvisi di Roma, ibid. II., xxiv.
* For 1568 ,:/. ibid. xxvi. According to the *Avviso di Roma of
August 17, 1569 (Urb. 1041, p. 133, Vatican Library) the Spanish
ambassador went to Carranza to congratulate him on his release.
On September 24, 1569 {ibid. 146b) we are told that the decision
had been come to. On December 10, 1569 {ibid. 195) it is again