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 might puzzle some readers; it is meant for Extravagantes, &c., another, and the last, portion of the pontifical code. I can hardly think that the colophon implies a reprint. If it does, it was almost certainly a reprint by Vergerio, synchronous, and of nearly, if not quite, equal value with the original.

Let us now exainine the first of the foregoing articles, reserved for after considerationi — ''Consiglio d'alcuni Episcopi congregati in Bologna. Verg''. This entry, for substance, stands in all the ensuing Papal Indexes to the last; but with this signal difference — the name Verg. or any allusion to the writer or editor, is altogether omitted. This is not accidental. Rome has a great objection, that any of her sons, especially her bishops, should appear as deserters and heretics. Vergerio has, in his Annotations to the Index of Paul IV., made and established this remark. In order to make the inquiry upon which we are entering, and which has embarrassed some good scholars, clear, the piece before us is carefully to be distinguished from another of the same character, and somewhat the same title, as we shall see, the Consilium de Emendanda Ecclesia, of the date of 1537, and which is likewise