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ported by St. George's, which, however, always paid verygrudgingly (cf. pp. 326-350), and finally, from 1739 onwards, no students at all were maintained , thus justifying in this case the complaints * as to the state of the Spanish Colleges . In these papers we have, from the beginning to the end, an insight into the inner history of one of the continental foundations ; not a pleasing picture, and one upon which a final judgment cannot be passed until the papers of the other Spanish Colleges can be read in conjunction. E.H. Burton , op. cit., p. 103. According to the registers and account books of the English College at Valladolid , during the hundred years from 1673 to 1773 , seventy-nine students ( including those supported at Valladolid by the Madrid College ) were admitted . Of the total number, 30 joined the Society, 29 became secular priests, 13 left ve infecta or were expelled, 4 died at the College or on the way to England, 2 left to become Carthusians, and a Franciscan.
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