The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

Chapter i, "Causes of the expulsion;" chapter ii, "The Execution

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of the expulsion;" chapter iii, "The monitory decree of Parma," a brief issued by Clement XIII on January 30, 1768, which attempted to assert the temporal power of the pope; [138] chapter iv, "Origin of the extinction of the Society of Jesus," showing how the plan for this measure was initiated by France, and how the other powers rapidly fell into line for her support; chapter v, "The election of Clement XIV," relating the important part played therein by the question of suppressing the Jesuit order, and the political scheming by the various powers interested; chapters vi-viii, "Extinction of the Society of Jesus;" chapter ix, "Consequences of the extinction;"