with the crisis caused by the marquess of pombal's expulsion of the religious orders from portugal (as a result of the attempted assassination of king joseph i of portugal), the jesuit school was vacated and classes discontinued on 23 june 1759. this was followed, on 4 july 1760, by the expulsion of the company of jesus, and although the church remained open for worship (its maintenance secured by the "fazenda real", or "royal estates"), an inventory of the college's property was collected for sale and the antiquities within the college were dispersed. it was in the library of the college that some of the important documents in the history of the azores were found, including the original manuscript for saudades da terra by gaspar frutuoso. during this latter part of the 18th century, the marquess of angeja and his family supported the local community and provided liturgical teaching in the vacuum of religion.