[333] Ranke, vol. ii. p. 444.
[334] St Priest, p. 12.
[335] St Priest, p. 13.
[336] Fifteen hundred of these monks landed at Civita Vecchia. It was a pitiful sight to behold some of those very old priests torn from the place where they had spent their lives, and thrown upon a foreign land. Even the Dominicans, their constant opponents, were touched with compassion, and received them kindly; and they have perpetuated the memory of this act of generosity by an inscription on stone.
[337] See it reported in St Priest, p. 21, and following.
[338] Crét. vol. v. p. 236.
[339] Three generals, Retz, Visconti, and Centurioni, had, after Tambourini, governed the Society; and the 19th General Congregation, named Lorenzo Ricci, who was the 18th General before the suppression.
[340] The debts of Lavallette amounted to 2,400,000 francs; but Crétineau assures us that the houses and lands belonging to the Company were bought by English capitalists for the sum of four millions of francs! Did not the Jesuits well observe the vows of poverty, this bulwark of religion?
[341] St Priest, p. 27.
[342] Ranke, vol. ii. p 447; St Priest, p. 29.