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THE CASE OF CARRANZA. 36
reading of the minutes, and when it was seen that the arch-
bishop had not been sufficiently fully examined in Spain, he
had appointed Spanish and Itahan consnltors, who had
diligently questioned Carranza on all the more important
points during more than two months. Besides this the Pope
had several times sent to Spain to seek for information and to
investigate the archbishop's writings ;i
several matters had
been gone into in Rome which had either been passed over in
Spain or were unknown there. As to the procedure adopted
in the dehberations, the Pope caused all present to give their
opinions ; the controverted points were discussed by all,
and the Pope made everyone give his opinion on each single
point, and finally had himself gone personally into the whole
in his own study. Three years had been spent in this, and he
hoped therefore that the final decision would be a just one,
not only before God, but even in the eyes of men.^
In spite of this crushing retort PhiHp IT. remained fixed in
his ideas. Zuniga was instructed to make a public protest
if the final decision should take the form of the acquittal of
Carranza, or if it should not be submitted to the king before
it was published. 3
In Philip's eyes Pius V. was still prejudiced
in favour of the archbishop.'' Zufiiga was instructed to go on
making the former Spanish demands, and to do all he could
to make the Pope look favourably upon them ;
he even one
day said to him that he must not let the stain rest upon his
good name of having had a man Hke Morone acquitted by him
as Cardinal, and the Archbishop of Toledo similarly set free
by him as Pope. This remark was not without a calculated
sting, for Zuiiiga knew that the Pope's conscience was not quite
easy about the acquittal of Morone.
^ See supra p. 349.
^ Corresp. dip]., III., 387 seq.
^ Ibid. IV., xxii., xxiv., n.
* Zuniga, July 13, and October 12, 157T, ibid. 388, 472.
que no dexasse tal memoria de si como seria que fuese
absuelto, siendo cardenal, un hombre como el Cardenal Moron,
y siendo pontifice, el Ar9bispo de Toledo. Muevele en gran
manera la conscientia de aver absuelto a Moron. ..." Zuniga
to Philip II., July i^, 1571, ibid. 389.