His confessor told him that having received
extreme unction, the other sacrament was unnecessary. "It may not be
necessary," said the dying man; "yet it is good company on so long a
journey." His wish was accordingly complied with; the wafer was brought
to his bedside, followed by the whole community in solemn procession,
and he received it from the hands of his confessor with tears of
devotion, incessantly repeating the words of our Saviour, "_In me manes,
ego in te maneam_." In spite of his extreme weakness, he remained for a
quarter of an hour kneeling in his bed, and uttering devout
ejaculations, in praise of the blessed sacrament, which the simple
friars attributed to divine inspiration.

On the evening of the 19th of September, a remarkable visitor knocked at
the gate of Yuste. It was the new Archbishop of Toledo, Bartolome
Carranza de Miranda--a name which stands high on the list of the Wolseys
of the world, of men remembered less for their splendid success than for
their signal fall. From a simple Dominican, he had risen to be a
professor at Valladolid, a leading doctor of Trent, prior of Palencia,
provincial of Spain, and prime adviser of Philip II. in that movement
which Spanish churchmen loved to call the reduction of England. During
Mary's reign, the ruthless black friar had been a mark for popular
vengeance; and Oxford, Cambridge, and Lambeth, long remembered how he
had preached the sacrifice of the mass, dug up the bones of Bucer, and
presided at the burning of Cranmer. For these services he had been
rewarded by Philip II. with the richest see in Christendom; and he was
now on his way to take possession of the throne of Toledo, little
thinking that his enemy, the inquisitor Valdes, was already preparing
the indictment which was to make his reign a long disgrace.

The archbishop was expected at Yuste. He had been long known to the
Emperor, who had paved the way for his success by sending him to display
his lore at the council of Trent. Charles had afterwards offered him the
Peruvian bishopric of Cuzco, the post of confessor to the heir-apparent
of Spain, and lastly, the bishopric of the Canaries. His refusal of all
these pieces of preferment caused his patron some surprise, which was
changed into displeasure by his acceptance of the see of Toledo. Reports
had also got abroad, which cast a doubt on the orthodoxy of the new
prelate,--of all doubts, as Charles thought, the gravest. He was anxious
for an oppor