Note 8 — THE COUNCIL OF 1771

Before opening the said council [conciliabulum], the archbishop made the charge that all religious were unfit and unworthy to attend the council—a statement that he insisted each one of them should subscribe to in his own handwriting. Such as refused were [punished], some by being thrown into prison, others by being very grievously distressed. Two fathers of the Pious Schools, however, as being members of his own order,8 he chose as secretaries of the council.