CHAPTER XIV

Pombal

Early life--Ambitions--Portuguese Missions--Seizure of the Spanish Reductions. Expulsion of the Missionaries-- End of the Missions in Brazil--War against the Society in Portugal--The Jesuit Republic--Cardinal Saldanha--Seizure of Churches and Colleges--The Assassination Plot--The Prisons--Exiles--Execution of Malagrida 442-477