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their opinions of the writings which were submitted to them
for examination, and the prudent step was taken of giving
them copies without a title page, so that they might not know
who was the author. The bull in which, on October ist, 1567,
as the result of these opinions, Pius V. condemned 76, or
according to a later estimate, 79 propositions,^ does not name
Baius or Hessels, and where mention is made of the supporters
of the condemned propositions they are spoken of in terms of
respect. It was certainly out of consideration for them that
the propositions were enumerated without any mention of the
censures which they individually deserve, and it is only at the
end of the list that it is stated that they are proscribed as a
whole as heretical or erroneous, suspect, etc., but it is not
stated which of them are heretical, erroneous, etc.'^ Moreover
the bull was not printed or publicly posted, and the Pope
left its execution to Cardinal Granvelle, who was told to pro-
ceed with all possible moderation.^
Granvelle did not like to have the bull solemnly published
in Louvain, and he entrusted its execution to his vicar-general,
Maximilian Morillon. Hessels had died in November, 1566,
and Morillon was to summon Baius before him and show him
the bull. If necessary the vicar-general was to communicate
it also to the theological faculty, and to insist that no attempt
be made in any way to defend the condemned propositions,
since, as he wrote to him, Granvelle could assure him that
everything possible had been done to interpret them in an
orthodox sense, and that the Pope had gone into the matter
as carefully as if he had been concerned with the salvation
of the whole world.'*
1 The bull itself does not give the number of the propositions.
* " Quas quidem sententias . . . haereticas, erroneas, suspectas,
temerarias, scandalosas et in pias aures offensionem immittentes
respective damnamus."
^ PouLLET, III., 106 seq. Le Bachelet, II., 48.
* " Car je vous puis asseurer que, pour les saulver, 1' on a faict
tout ce qui a este possible, -et qu' en cest affaire Sa Sainctete a use
d'une diligence que, si ce fut est6 pour gaigner tout le monde.
Ton n'eust s9eu faire plus." Poullet, III., .107.