[589] Suplemento á el Indice, 1739, p. 36.—Manuel F. Miguélez, Jansenismo y Regalismo en España, pp. 98 sqq. (Valladolid, 1895). Fray Miguélez is an Augustinian, seeking to vindicate St. Augustin and his Order from Jesuit attacks. His work is based on inedited documentary material.
[590] Miguélez, op. cit., pp. 90-5.—Semanário erúdito, XXX, 53.
[591] Miguélez, op. cit.—In connection with Padre Rábago it may be mentioned that, in 1747, when already royal confessor, he was denounced to the Santiago tribunal for solicitation, but escaped trial under the rule requiring two denunciations. Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Toledo, Leg. 233, n. 108, fol. 60.
The Indice Ultimo of 1790 (p. 192) records the removal of Noris’s books and prohibits all writings on both sides of the affair.
[592] Relazioni Venete, Serie I, T. V, p. 484.
[593] Jo. Nic. von Hontheim, De Statu Ecclesiæ et legitima Potestate Romani Pontificis. Bullioni, 1763.
[594] Miguélez, op. cit., pp. 274, 364, 366, 380.
[595] Rafael de Vélez, Apología del Altar y del Trono, I, 442 (Madrid, 1825).-Clément, Journal de Correspondances et de Voyages pour la Paix de l’Eglise, II, 31 (Paris, 1802).
Clément, then canon and treasurer of Auxerre, and subsequently Bishop of Versailles, was a self-appointed negotiator in 1768 to prevent the schism, which he thought was impending, and to unite all the courts in opposition to Ultramontanism. His candid self-complacency and belief in his own importance give a certain life to his otherwise formless account of his mission, while his dread lest the Inquisition should obtain knowledge of what he was doing shows how thoroughly it was on the Ultramontane side.
[596] Cartas del Filósofo rancio, II, 32.