Jesuit suppression in the Portuguese dominions

[José I de Portugal]. Edit d'expulsion des Jesuites de tous les Etats de la Couronne de Portugal.

€ 7.500,00

First printing in French and Portuguese ("Ley por que Vossa Magestade he servido exterminar, proscrever a mandar expulsar dos seus reinos os religiosos da Companhia denominada de Jesu").

Moves to suppress the Jesuits in the Portuguese dominions came to a head in 1757 with the publication of the "Relacao que os Jesuitas" by the Chief Minister of State, the Marquis de Pombal. It condemned the Jesuits' wealth, power, mercantile interests, monopoly of the spice trade, and attempts to create a sanctuary for the Guarani Native nation, virtually a mission republic, in Portuguese-controlled Paraguay. On 3 September 1759, King José I expelled the Jesuits from Portuguese territory and confiscated their property. This was endorsed and enacted by France in 1764, by Spain in 1767, and by Pope Clement XIV in Rome, 1773, finally reaching the Peking Jesuits in 1774. It was the worldly ventures of the Jesuits, not the Rites Controversy, that sealed their expulsion.