Note 6 — Character and Influence of the Friars

This passage is hopelessly confused in the English translation, and proves how entirely untrustworthy that translation is. The reading of the original (da sie gezwungen sein würden, dort der Ordensregel zu entsagen und als Rentner zu leben) is translated “for they are compelled in the colonies to abandon all obedience to the rules of their order, and to live as laymen”—a sin against actual history, as well as language.