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356<br />

HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

must be submitted to <strong>the</strong> king before it was published. If<br />

it should happen that " extraneous considerations and private<br />

ends " entered into <strong>the</strong> trial, <strong>the</strong> king would be " constrained "<br />

for <strong>the</strong> safeguarding <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> " common good " to remedy this<br />

by " <strong>the</strong> means best suited to prevent a scandal."^<br />

<strong>The</strong> same ideas and demands recur several times in o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

letters <strong>from</strong> Spain. What was bound to hurt <strong>the</strong> Pope most<br />

was <strong>the</strong> fact that, notwithstanding his assurances, both<br />

Zuniga and <strong>the</strong> king persisted in making out that he was<br />

predisposed in Carranza's favour, and that he was not allow-<br />

ing justice to take its course. ^ Nor were threats wanting.<br />

Zuiiiga openly declared that his master found himself con-<br />

strained for <strong>the</strong> safeguarding <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> common goood to take<br />

steps to prevent <strong>the</strong> return <strong>of</strong> Carranza, as, for example,<br />

by calHng toge<strong>the</strong>r a conference <strong>of</strong> prelates to consider <strong>the</strong><br />

matter, on <strong>the</strong> plea that in Spain, as in o<strong>the</strong>r countries,<br />

princes who were strongly Catholic, and most obedient to<br />

<strong>the</strong> Holy See, had not infrequently held such conferences in<br />

order to obviate difiiculties which were feared as <strong>the</strong> result <strong>of</strong><br />

certain Roman ordinances, and which might have disturbed<br />

<strong>the</strong> peace <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir countries.^<br />

1 " Advirtiendo a S. B. que si enteiidieremos que se tiene<br />

consideracion a otros respectos y fines particulates, nos seria<br />

for9ado . . . acudir al remedio per el beneficio universal por<br />

los mejores medics que conviniesse para el buen exemplo." Ibid.<br />

38.<br />

- Zuniga to Philip IL, July 13 1571 (report <strong>of</strong> his audience<br />

with Pius v.), ibid. IV., 388 :<br />

" Dixele que en el mode que havia<br />

procedido, havia dado muchas occasiones a que V. M. tuviesse en<br />

esta parte alguna sombra ; y que Su Santidad havia entrado a ver<br />

esta causa con opinion que el Ar9obispo stava siu culpa, y habia<br />

nombrado consultores muy apasionados y sospechosos, etc."<br />

Cf. Zuniga to Philip II., October 12, 1571, ibid. 472.<br />

3 ' Como seria hacer junta de prelados sopra esta causa, pues<br />

en estos reinos y en otros han acostumbrado principes muy<br />

catolicos, y muy obedientes a esta Santa Sede hacer semej antes<br />

juntas para resistir a los inconvenientes de algunas cosas de las<br />

que en Roma se han proveido, que parecian podrian disturbar la<br />

quiete de sus estados," Zuiiiga, July 23, 1570, ibid. IV., xix.

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