these subaltern agents. The position of a Conclavist is confidential—one of intimacy.[1] Each Cardinal may be accompanied by two, who must be neither engaged in trade, nor stewards to princes, nor lords of a temporal jurisdiction, nor brothers or nephews of their patron Cardinal, in whose household they must have been domiciled for a twelvemonth before. The feeling of jealous precaution which is plainly dominant in all these regulations, has caused their conditions to be carefully observed. In 1758 Cardinal Malvezzi attempted to smuggle in a favourite, Canon Bolognini, and underwent the mortification of seeing him denied admission by the Sacred College, on the ground of his not having been a bonâ fide member of the Cardinal's house-
- ↑ The obligation of secrecy is as incumbent in law on the Concla\ists and officials as on the Cardinals. In 1829 the violation thereof was visited with public expulsion and imprisonment. 'A Conclavist (I believe the one of Cardinal Ruffo Scilla) and a porter (fachino),' writes the Modenese Envoy Ceccopieri, 'have been expelled and put in prison for having, in defiance of the oath of secrecy by which all are bound when setting foot in Conclave, caused it to be distinctly known that Cardinal de Gregorio would be chosen in ten days' time,-an election which, however, went off in smoke, through Cardinal Albani's entrance.'—Bianchi, Diplomazia Europea in ltalia, vol. ii. p. 430.
