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CONDEMNATION OF BAIANISM. 379
his lack of judgment, remarking that lie had for a long time
past noticed the latter defect in the celebrated professor.^
Baius gave further proof of this by the way in which he com-
plied with the demand of the bishops. In his lectures on
April 17th and 19th, 1570, he set forth his attitude towards
the bull, substantially reiterating the point of view, apparently
long since set aside, which he had adopted in his apologias
to Pius V. and Cardinal Simonetta.
This settled the fate of Baius. The Duke of Alba intervened
and demanded of the provincial council, then assembled at
Malines, in June, 1570, that the bull should be solemnly
pubhshed at Louvain, and subscribed by all the professors.
The bishops had the courtesy to inform Baius privately of what
was about to be done, and found him ready to accept it. On
November i6th the bull was published by Morillon at Louvain,
in the presence of Baius, the professors and the students.
The doctors then had to swear to the bull, a thing which drew
tears from Baius. ^ In the evening the rector of the university
sent each of the doctors a formula, in which they had to declare
that they accepted the condemnation of the 76 propositions,
and that they would act in accordance with their acceptance.
No signatures, however, were received to this formula, for when
Morillon had gone it was rumoured that he had carried out
the publication of the bull on his own authority without the
order of the bishops, and the latter had to defend him against
this charge in a special letter.^
Later on, however, after further pressure on the part of the
Pope and the Duke of Alba, the doctors decided on April 17th,
1571, that they must look upon the 76 propositions as condemned,
and take away from the students all the books which
contained them. Yielding to further pressure on the part
of Alba the doctors on August 29th promised the fullest
^To Granvelle, June 4, 1569, in Poullet, III., 596: "Tout
le mal est que, comme jugent par dela les S9avantz de luy, qu'il
n'est d'erudition fondle en scholastique ny de bon jugement,
et il y at longtemps que je m'apperceois de ce dernier poinct."
* Laderchi, 1570, p. 292.
^ Of December 23, 1570, ibid. n. 293.