A form of declaration for the ex-Jesuits.
I The undersigning declare, that in the month of ... and year of ... before the arrêt of the court of ... which requires of the late Jesuits the renunciation of that institution, I made voluntarily that renunciation, of which the pieces hereunto annexed are vouchers.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] See the Jesuit writers of the life of St. Ignatius.
[2] Father Boyer the Theatin, afterwards Bishop of Mirepoix, and since preceptor to the children of France.
[3] We speak here in general; for it is agreed that there have been, and are still, in the other orders, some men of merit.
[4] We know from a very respectable and very sure hand, that this father of the church was some months since at Petersbourg, where he wrote, for bread, panegyricks on a great princess, who pays to his eulogies the same regard as to his writings. Nothing more was wanting to the disgrace of those who set him to work, but to leave him, as they do, in want, and obliged to go to beg abjectly, at six hundred leagues, his subsistence.