First edition of all four Manila imprints, relating to the expulsion of the Jesuits, and the events leading up to the event. Medina praises the Memorial, which describes the disturbances and troubles created by the Jesuits “Es un document muy bien escrito y lleno de amargas verdades contra los frailes de Filipinas” (Medina, Manila, 279). The Aragonese Archbishop of Manila, Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa (1728 – 1787), arrived in Manila in 1767 after a five-month journey from Cadiz, appointed as Archbishop by commission of Pope Clement XIII, the architect of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish domains. On 17 May 1768 the order for the expulsion of the Jesuits reached Manila, five days later an Edict condemning the teachings of the Jesuits was issued, and clearly invited obedience to the Spanish monarch and the Church, between 1768 and 1771 the Archbishop oversaw the complicated expulsion of 143 Jesuits from the Philippines who were sent to Cadiz on various ships, thus, he was an influential part of the expulsion and a well-positioned eyewitness to the process. The ships that carried out the Jesuits were Venus and Santa Rosa, a broadside imprint prohibiting them to preach whilst on board was issued by the Archbishop, in 1770. Palau, 296832, 296830 and 296833. Medina 278, 279, 280, 286 (who gives it as 1771). Leclerc, 1867, 1373.
