[303] For the persecutions to which all those ecclesiastics, regular or secular, were subjected, because they would not submit to the domineering spirit of the Jesuits, see the preface of tom. xxxii. of Arnauld’s work, with documents.
[304] Inhibendum est Patri Grenerali, totique societate ne in posterum recipiant novicios ad habitum societatis, neque admittant ad vota sive simplicia sive solemnia.
[305] See the Mémoires Historiques de Norbert, already quoted. See also Anecdotes sur Le Chine, t. vi. p. 408.
[306] Ranke, vol. ii. p. 388.
[307] Epist. Meutii Vitelleschi, &c. (Antwerp, 1665.)
[308] Gioberti Il Gesuita Moderno, vol. iii. p. 299.
[309] Diario Deone apud Ranke, vol. ii. p. 389.
[310] Vincentii Caraffæ Epistole de Modis conservandi primævum spiritum Societatis. Part of it apud Ranke, in a note, vol. ii. p. 391.
[311] Ibid.
[312] Ranke, vol. ii. p. 389.