"Pombal now wrote to Pope Clement XIII in Rome, demanding that he «extinguish» the Jesuit order. Otherwise, he would orchestrate a joint military invasion of Rome by Portuguese, Spanish and French troops. Its purpose would be to remove Clement from the throne of St. Peter and replace him with a new Pope who would do what Pombal ordered him to do.
Clement declined. Pombal expelled the Vatican Ambassador from Lisbon, and declared that he was preparing the establishment of an independent national Church, on the lines of the Church of England"
(Martin Page, The First Global Village, op. cit., p. 201; bold mine)
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