A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4

by Henry Charles Lea

[597] Muriel, Historia de Carlos IV (Mem. hist. español, XXXIV, 119).

[598] Menéndez y Pelayo, III, 245.

[599] Clément, II, 102.

[600] Llorente, Hist. crít., cap. xxix, art. iii, n. 1, 2; cap. XLIII, art. iii, n. 1.

[601] Clément, op. cit., II, 44, 83-5, 296-7.

[602] Ferrer del Rio, Historia de Carlos III, Lib. II, cap. ii, iv.

The trial of Dr. Benito Navarro, a Jesuit Tertiary, was printed at the time and indicates the participation of the Jesuits in the troubles, with the object of forcing the restoration to power of the Marquis of la Ensenada. Incidentally the evidence shows the enormous influence wielded by the Jesuits through having their creatures in governmental positions, where they could mislead and betray their superiors. To statesmen like Aranda, Campomanes, Roda and Floridablanca, the continued existence of the Jesuits in Spain was a manifest impossibility.

The documents connected with the expulsion are printed by Miraflores in his “Documentos á los qué se hace referencia en los apuntes historico-críticos sobre la Revolucion de España,” II, 38-71 (Londres, 1834).

[603] Novís. Recop., Lib. viii, Tit. i-ix.—Carta de Josef Clíment, Obispo de Barcelona, 26 de Junio, 1767.

[604] MSS of Am. Philos. Society.