Note 3 — LETTER FROM CARRION TO RUEDA
Reading edition
Evidently a reference to Sebastian Joseph Carvalho e Mello, Marquis Pombal, the Portuguese prime minister, who expelled the Jesuits from Portugal by the decree of September 1, 1759; and to the famous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755. See Nicolini’s History of Jesuits (London, 1879); Cretineau-Joly’s Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris, 1859), v; and Griesinger’s Jesuits (London, 1903, 3d ed.). ↑