Among the Jesuits whose writings secured special attention on the part of the Index authorities were J. B. Poza (†1660) and Théophile Raynaud (†1663). Poza, who was a native of Bilboa, printed in 1626 at Alcala, under the title of _Elucidarium Deiparae_, a treatise that is described as one of the very worst among the many books concerning the Virgin. This volume was prohibited by the Congregation of the Index in 1628, and as a result of Poza’s bitter protests against the action of the Congregation, a prohibition was issued in 1632 covering all of his writings. In Poza’s contentions against the judgment of the Roman authorities, he had the support of the Spanish Inquisition, which refused to confirm both the individual and the general Roman prohibition. Raynaud, born in 1583 near Nizza, became a Jesuit in 1602. He was a scholar and an active writer. He first came into conflict with the Congregation in connection with a bitter satire against the Dominican theories of the doctrine of Grace. Shortly thereafter, was condemned a monograph of his written to oppose the view that those who died of pestilence were to be held as martyrs. In 1659, was prohibited a monograph of Raynaud on the ecclesiastical system of censorship. Thereupon he published, under a pseudonym, a satire treating of the control exercised by the Dominicans over the Inquisition, which was promptly placed on the Index. Clement X, who is classed as favouring the Jesuits, found occasion to condemn a number of treatises written in defence of Berruyer’s _Historia Populi Dei_. This work was prohibited in Spain, 1759 (see also p. 42). Under Benedict XIV and during the first years of Clement XIII, were placed upon the Index a long series of publications written in opposition to the Jesuits. Among the works antagonistic to the Jesuits which were prohibited during the decade after 1750 may be mentioned the following: Quesnel, _Histoire des Religieux de la Compagnie de Jésus_, Utrecht, 1741; _Procès contre les Jesuites, pour servir de suite aux causes Célèbres_, Brest, 1750; Mesnier (†1761), _Problême Historique, qui des Jésuites ou de Luther ou de Calvin ont le plus nui à l’Église Chrétienne_, Utrecht, 1758; de Silva, _Histoire de l’Admirable Don Inigo de Guipuscoa, Chevalier de la Vierge_, The Hague, 1738. The author of the _History of the Jesuits_ (published in London in 1816, and ascribed to John Poynder) writes: “The doctrine of probability, our ignorance of the law of nature, and the necessity of actual reflection upon the quality of an action in order to its becoming sinful, are the foundations upon which the moral corruption of the Jesuits is built.”[28] [Sidenote: The Jesuits in France, 1610–1625]