A bit of history on the Jesuits - https://www.pickle-publishing. com/papers/triple-crown-clement-xiv.htm
This is a big text but well worth the read. Interesting tidbits:
The Catholic Powers, who had at first been content with expelling the Jesuits from their territories, were determined since Clement XIII's aggression on Parma to obtain from the Holy See the total suppression of the Order.
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Choiseul, the able and tireless antagonist of the Jesuits, had been entrusted by the allied Sovereigns, long before Clement's death, with the devising of the plan of campaign to be adopted at the next conclave.
/…/ All the Catholic monarchs being in perfect agreement there could be no separate political parties, and many of the disabilities which in other circumstances might have gone against this candidate or the other, were now deemed of no importance. The only information sought concerning a would-be pope was: Is he for or against the Jesuits?
/…/ Had it not been for this excess of conviviality it is possible that Ganganelli would never have become Pope, for he himself kept modestly in the background, never attempting to attract attention or recruit adherents. He had attained a certain degree of notoriety a few years previously by the able and eloquent way in which he had addressed the consistory in favour of the canonisation of the Bishop of Palafox, a Spaniard, who had been an inveterate enemy of the Jesuits.
/…/ He settled the matter there and then in his mind, and as it was imperative that France should be the future pontiff's first patron, he sped swiftly to Ganganelli's cubicle and without so much as a preamble offered him the papal crown, informing him of Choiseul's conditions and pressing for an immediate answer. Ganganelli showed no emotion, and with great dignity replied that he had not sought the great honour which Bernis proposed to confer on him; that he was well aware that many popes had signed treaties before their election, but that without in any way blaming them for having done so he did not intend to follow their example. He categorically [p. 272] refused any territorial concessions whatever, but gave his word of honour that if he became Pontiff he would see justice done regarding the Jesuits and would abolish the Order if a free tribunal judged it expedient, and he himself was satisfied that such a measure should be taken in the interests of the Church.
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After mature deliberation the commission entrusted with the fate of the Society of Jesus concluded in favour of its suppression, unless its General would agree to a radical revision of the statutes, which Ricci stubbornly refused to do.
Clement was in complete agreement with the verdict, and on July 22nd, 1773, he issued the bull "Dominus ac Redemptor" in which he summed up in masterly fashion the causes and the motives which had guided the commission in taking its decision. The next day he signed the decree abolishing the Order founded by Ignatius Loyola 233 years before; which had covered itself both with glory and opprobrium, and whose members had proved themselves such incomparable servants and such deplorable masters. It is said that when Count Florida Blanca came to congratulate the Pope on the long-delayed execution, he smiled sadly, replying: "I have signed my death warrant, but I have obeyed my conscience".