426 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



12. Benedictine Monies of Douay. 

 This monastery was a college be- 

 longing to the rich abbey of 

 Benedictines of St. Vedast, or 

 Vaast of Arras, where their 

 young monks resided during 

 their studies in the university 

 of Douay. The buildings be- 

 ing much greater than were 

 necessary for that purpose, the 

 abbey granted a part of them 

 to some English monks of the 

 same order that were profes- 

 sed in different houses on the 

 continent, on condition that 

 they performed all the choir 

 offices in the church of the col- 

 lege, in place of the monks of 

 St. Vedast. This cession was 

 made in the year l604, or 

 1 605 ; and this monastery af- 

 terwards became considerable, 

 not only as a convent of monks, 

 but likewise as a college for 

 the education of youth in clas- 

 sical learning. It was go- 

 verned by a prior, and sub- 

 sisted till 1793, when all that 

 remained in the house were 

 seized and imprisoned with cir- 

 cumstances of the most wan- 

 ton cruelty. 



13. Jesuits of Watten. 



This was the noviciate of the Je- 

 suits, and was begun at Lou- 

 vain, in the year l605, by fa- 

 ther Parsons; but by a grant 

 made to them by the bishop of 

 St. Omer's of the monastery of 

 Watten, a house before be- 

 longing to canon regulars of 

 St. Augustine, they soon re- 

 moved thither. The bishop's 

 deed was dated April 1 1 , 1 6 11 . 

 The yearly income thereof 

 amounted tu about 3000 florins. 

 Watten is only two leagues 

 from St. Omer's, on the canal 



leading to Dunkirk. This 

 house served for a retreat to 

 the aged and infirm members 

 of the society, as well as for a 

 noviciate. After the suppres- 

 sion of the Jesuits in France, 

 those of this house were re- 

 moved, in 1765, to the pro- 

 fessed house at Ghent, where 

 they remained till the extinc- 

 tion of the society in 1 773. 



1 4:.Benedictine Monks ofDeuIouart. 

 Deulouart is a town in Lorraine, 

 on the Moselle, not far from 

 Pont-a-Mousson, The monas- 

 tery was given by the cardinal 

 of Lorraine, in the year 1 606, 

 to some Benedictine monks of 

 the English nation. Besides 

 the monastery they had a 

 coUege for the education of 

 youth. Both subsisted till 

 crushed by the French revo- 

 lution. 



15. Jesuitesses, 

 This institution was first attempt- 

 ed at St. Omer's in the year 

 I6O8, by Mrs. Mary Ward, 

 and by the persuasion and as- 

 sistance of father Roger Lee, 

 an English Jesuit ; but could 

 never obtain an approbation 

 from the pope. In the year 

 1622 poverty obliged them to 

 break up at St. Omer's; and a 

 few of them obtained a preca- 

 rious residence in the diocese 

 of Cologne. These, iii the 

 year I629, sought to settle at 

 Liege ; but being discounte- 

 nanced there, they soon after 

 removed to Munich, the capi- 

 tal of Bavaria, where they pro- 

 cured a handsome settlement, 

 which I believe they still en- 

 joy. Their chief employment 

 is the education of young per- 

 sons of their own sex. 



