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Underwent the same fate as all 28. Poo?- Clares at Rouen. 



the other English convents in 

 France. 



25. Benedictine Nuns in Ghent. 

 This abbey was established in the 



yearl624by lady Lucy Knatch- 

 bull and three other professed 

 nunsof the monastery at Brus- 

 sels. The education of young 

 persons of their own sex made 

 part of the employment of 

 these religious women,till their 

 flight out of the country on the 

 approach of the French army 

 in 1794. 



26. Augustine Nuns in Bruges. 

 This priory of regular canonesses 



of St. Austin was erected in the 

 year I629, by Mrs. Frances 

 Stanford and eight more pro- 

 fessed nuns of the English mo- 

 nastery of the same order in 

 Lou vain. The education of 

 young ladies was part of their 

 occupation. Their church, re- 

 built by a lady I>ucy Herbert, 

 prioress of the house, was beau- 

 tiful but small. These nuns 

 fled, like all the rest, on the ap- 

 proach of the French in 1 794'. 

 27' Augustine Nuns in Paris. 

 This house was established in 

 1 6S3, by lady Letitia Maria 

 Tredway, canoness-regular of 

 the noble abbey of Notre Dame 

 de Beaulieu in Douay, and by 

 the assistance of Mr. Miles 

 Carr, alias Pickney, proctor of 

 Douay-college. It was go- 

 verned by a prioress, and the 

 nuns were employed in the 

 education of young ladies, be- 

 sides the religious duties in- 

 cumbent on them as cano- 

 nesses-regular. This commu- 

 nity subsisted till 1 793, when 

 the French revolution put an 

 end to it. 



This convent of religious women 

 of the strictest reform of the 

 order of St. Francis, by some 

 called Colletines, was begun 

 in 1 64'8, by Mrs. Mary Taylor 

 and fourteen associates,all pro- 

 fessed nuns of Gravelines, the 

 mother-house of all the other 

 convents of EnglishFranciscan 

 nuns. The life of these of 

 Rouen was wholly contempla- 

 tive; they did not interfere 

 with the education of youth. 

 They subsisted, till crushed by 

 the French revolution in 1 793- 

 29- Benedictine Nuns in Paris. 

 This monastery was erected in the 

 year \65\, by the endeavours 

 of Mrs. Clementia Cary. After 

 five several habitations in dif- 

 ferent parts of Paris, they at 

 last, in 1664, fixed themselves 

 in the Rue du Champ de 

 I'Aloutte, Fauxbourg St. Mar- 

 cel, where they remained till 

 put an end to by the French 

 revolution in 1 793. This mo- 

 nastery was under the congre- 

 gation of St. Benedict. 



30. Benedictine Nuns at Ponioise. 

 These religious women were ori- 

 ginally a colony from the Eng- 

 lish monasteryinGhent, which, 

 in 1652, went to Boulogne, in 

 Picardy, Mrs. Catherine Wig- 

 more being their first abbess. 

 In 1658 they removed from 

 thence to Pontoise, where they 

 subsisted till the revolution in 

 1793. 



31. Poor Clares at Dmikirk. 

 This convent was founded in the 



year l652, by the endeavours 

 of Anne Browne, niece to lord 

 viscount Montague, who was a 

 professed nun of Gravelines. 

 Slie, with three others of the 



