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APPENDIX.<br />

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.<br />

<strong>The</strong> following documents are intended to confirm and complete<br />

<strong>the</strong> text <strong>of</strong> my book ; it has formed no part <strong>of</strong> my plan to<br />

provide a true and full collection <strong>of</strong> documents. In every<br />

case <strong>the</strong> place where <strong>the</strong> document was found is given with<br />

<strong>the</strong> greatest possible exactitude. As far as <strong>the</strong> text is con-<br />

cerned, I have, as a rule, preserved intact <strong>the</strong> wording <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

documents or letters, which for <strong>the</strong> most part I have had<br />

before me in <strong>the</strong> original ; <strong>the</strong>re is no need for me to justify<br />

<strong>the</strong> changes I have made in <strong>the</strong> matter <strong>of</strong> capital letters and<br />

punctuation. Where I have ventured on alterations I have<br />

always noted <strong>the</strong> fact, though small mistakes and obvious<br />

copyist's errors have not been specially noted. <strong>The</strong> additions<br />

which I have made are en<strong>close</strong>d in square brackets, while<br />

unintelhgible or doubtful pass<strong>ages</strong> are mar'.ed by a note <strong>of</strong><br />

interrogation or by <strong>the</strong> word " sic." Those pass<strong>ages</strong> which<br />

I have omitted, ei<strong>the</strong>r when copying <strong>the</strong> documents or in<br />

preparing <strong>the</strong>m for <strong>the</strong> Press, and which were not essential<br />

or unnecessary for my purpose, are marked by dots (...).<br />

I. <strong>The</strong> Conclave <strong>of</strong> Pius V. According to <strong>the</strong> Diary <strong>of</strong><br />

Cornelius Firmanus.^<br />

Ea nocte [sequenti diem 23^ decembris 1565] omnes rev'^<br />

vigilarunt facientes praticas pro electione novi pontificia<br />

erant enim multi qui quaerebant et totis viribus instabant<br />

quod eligeretur in pontificem rev°^"^ Moronus.. alii erant qui<br />

ipsius exclusionem quaerebant : fiebantque praticae et conventiculae<br />

tanta cum celeritate, strepitu, rumore ac concursu<br />

quod vix credi possent ; aliqui rev"^^ ibant fere currentes<br />

portantes de per se busias cum luminibus absque aliquibus ex<br />

eorum conclavistis, alii sine luminibus nee omnino vestiti,<br />

adeoque videbatur maximus confiictus. Sed si ilia nocte<br />

1 See supra, p. 27, n. 5.

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