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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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The King of Spain is determined to suppress the Society of Jesuits, ordering his ambassador Mr. Asprau at Rome to press the Pope for its dissolution. Searches in Jesuit houses in Spain uncovered concealed wealth of nearly 70 million piastres and important papers, increasing the monarch's aversion.
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According to letters from Madrid, the King of Spain appears firmly resolved, and invariably determined, to effect, let the consequence be what it will, the suppression of the Society of Jesuits; in order to which his Catholic Majesty has sent a new order to Mr. Asprau, his ambassador resident at Rome, to insist on and labour the point not ardently with the Pope for the dissolution of that pernicious society.
We are informed that the aversion of the Spanish monarch to the Jesuits is increased, since a farther and more scrupulous search has lately been made in the houses which these sons of Loyola possessed in Spain; whereby it was discovered that these hypocrites had concealed to the value of near seventy millions of piastres, and many papers of importance.
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Spain
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May 14
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determination to suppress the society of jesuits; discovery of concealed near seventy millions of piastres and many papers of importance in jesuit houses in spain
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The King of Spain has sent a new order to his ambassador Mr. Asprau at Rome to insist with the Pope for the dissolution of the Society of Jesuits. Aversion increased due to searches revealing concealed wealth and important papers in Jesuit houses in Spain.