P. 275, l. 33. Antonio Escobar y Mendoza. The Spanish Jesuit whose system of morals was so severely handled by Pascal in the Provincial Letters. He is among those whose names have given rise to a word: "escobarderie" is a synonym for equivocation.
P. 276, l. 6. Molina, Louis, a Spanish Jesuit, born 1535, died 1601. The Jansenists accused his Commentary on the Summa of Saint Thomas Aquinas of favouring a lax morality.
P. 277, l. 4. Mohatra. "The contract Mohatra, by which a man buys cloth at a dear rate and on credit, to re-sell it at once to the same person cheaply for ready money." Eighth Provincial.
P. 278, l. 21. Est and non est.
P. 278, l. 26. Væ qui conditis leges iniquas. Is. x. 1. But the Vulgate reads Væ qui condunt.
P. 279, l. 22. M. de Condran. No doubt Charles de Condren, 1588-1641, doctor of the Sorbonne, and second General of the French Oratory, a society of priests founded by Cardinal de Bérulle at Paris in 1611.
P. 280, l. 7. Sanctificavi prælium. Mic. iii. 5.
P. 280, l. 12. Ne convertantur. Is. vi. 10.
P. 282, l. 21. Coacervabunt tibi magistras. 2 ad Tim. iv. 3, where the Vulgate has "sibi."
P. 282, l. 28. not to make appointments to bishoprics. But a few years after this Fathers La Chaise and Le Tellier, as Confessors to the King, had this power in their hands.