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16. Augustine Nuns in Louvain. 

 These canonesses of St. Austin 

 were first established in the 

 year 1609, by Mrs. Mary 

 Wiseman^a professed nunof the 

 Flemish convent of St. Ursula, 

 in Louvain. They were go- 

 verned by a prioress, and edu- 

 catedyoungladies. Thishouse 

 enjoyed considerable funds, 

 and subsisted till theFrench in- 

 vasion in 1 794, when the mem- 

 bers of it fled out of the Low 

 Countries. 



17- Benedictine Nuns in Paris. 

 This priory was first founded at 

 St. Malo, in the year 1 6I 1 , by 

 GifFard, archbishop of Rlieims, 

 who before his elevation to 

 that see had been the first pre- 

 sident of the English congrega- 

 tion of St. Benedict. The 

 Frenchking notpermitting this 

 house to continue at St. Malo, 

 on account of the proximity of 

 this place to England, arch- 

 bishop GifFard procured them 

 another at Paris, which after- 

 ward (in 1742) was changed 

 for one in the Rue St. Jaques, 

 where they remained till 1793, 

 when they were involved in the 

 common destruction of the 

 French revolution. During 

 their existence in Paris, these 

 monks enjoyed all the privi- 

 leges of the university, with 

 regard to studies, degrees, and 

 benefices annexed to the de- 

 grees ; and it was by means of 

 these last that the house en- 

 joyed considerable revenues. 



18. Benedictines, Paris. 



Soon after tlie establishment of 

 this monastery in Paris, fatlicr 

 Francis Walgrave, a member 

 of it, obtained from the i-ich Be- 

 nedictine abbey of Marniou- 



tier near Tours, the religious 

 cell called I^a Celle en Brie, in 

 the diocess of Meaux, twelve 

 leagues east of Paris, which he 

 resigned up to the priory at 

 Paris, and to which it remained 

 annexed till the fall of both in 

 1 793. A superior, and two or 

 three religious of the monas- 

 tery at Paris resided in it, and 

 kept a school for the educa- 

 tion of youth in classical learn- 

 ing. This religious foundation 

 had anciently been handsomely 

 endowed, and had an exten- 

 sive lordship annexed to it. 



19- Jesuists College in Liege. 

 This was founded for the educa- 

 tion of youth in classical learn- 

 ing, in the year I616, by 

 George Talbot afterwards earl 

 of Shrewsbury. He, in 1 626, 

 obtained of the duke of Bava- 

 ria, prince bishop of Liege, to 

 settle on this coUege an annual 

 pension, being the interest of 

 200,000 florins. It subsisted 

 on this footing till the extinc- 

 tion of the Jesuits in 1773, 

 when it changed its name into 

 that of an English Academy, 

 at the same time extending its 

 plan of education ; and it re- 

 mained in the hands of those 

 to whom it had belonged be- 

 fore, till the French occupied 

 Liege in 1794. 



20. Fraticiscan Recollects in Douay. 

 This convent was begun in I6I 7> 

 by father John Gennings, 

 afterwards their first provincial 

 superior. It had no other 

 scliool than that of the studies 

 of the religious of the house, 

 which enjoyed, in that respect, 

 the privileges of the univerity 

 of Douay. It subsisted in a 

 flourishing condition till the 



