Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp
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Hi my friend Gullum: You lightly passed over the reason for the expulsion being because of the ´plot´. This is ´precisely´ why the order was to be secretly implemented. If they were involved in a plot, but no great overt act had yet taken place, you would want to catch ALL of the participants at once, since any survivors could then prematurely trigger the revolt, IF it had progressed far enough. Apparently it hadn´t.
As for simply expelling them for mining, that information and the mine locations could easily have been accomplished by the King´s spies who were everywhere. They certainly had the resources, authority and time to do so.
The Mission priests were not involved in the plot, also they were expendable in order to keep hidden the fact that the Jesuits had a secret line into the King´s quarters and privy councils.
You are also forgetting the testimony of my x assoc. who actually had an audience with the then no.2 of the Jesuit Heirachy in Rome, who when he was brazenly asked about it, smiled, and replied ¨Yes, but we don´t do those types of things any more¨.
As for being expelled by other nations in other lands earlier, that is another story, and for another reason. In fact it may actually have been the basic reason for developing the plot with the Dutch. This would have left them a foot hold in Spanish North America, independent of Spain.
Much work remains to be done on inaccessible fields in Rome, Belgium, and Dutch Royal Archives.
Don Jose de La Mancha
As for simply expelling them for mining, that information and the mine locations could easily have been accomplished by the King´s spies who were everywhere. They certainly had the resources, authority and time to do so.
The Mission priests were not involved in the plot, also they were expendable in order to keep hidden the fact that the Jesuits had a secret line into the King´s quarters and privy councils.
You are also forgetting the testimony of my x assoc. who actually had an audience with the then no.2 of the Jesuit Heirachy in Rome, who when he was brazenly asked about it, smiled, and replied ¨Yes, but we don´t do those types of things any more¨.
As for being expelled by other nations in other lands earlier, that is another story, and for another reason. In fact it may actually have been the basic reason for developing the plot with the Dutch. This would have left them a foot hold in Spanish North America, independent of Spain.
Much work remains to be done on inaccessible fields in Rome, Belgium, and Dutch Royal Archives.
Don Jose de La Mancha