430 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



same house, began the esta- 

 blishment, which subsisted till 

 the revolution of 1 793- Their 

 solitary contemplative life did 

 not permit them to meddle with 

 the education of youth. 

 32. Cojiceptio?iist Nuns in Paris. 

 On the breaking up of the con- 

 vent of Franciscan nuns at 

 Nieuport in 1658, as was men- 

 tioned above, (No. 21 ) Angela 

 Jerningham, and six others of 

 those nuns went to Paris, and, 

 in 1660, they put themselves 

 under the rules of the order of 

 the Conception, and along 

 with their other religious du- 

 ties educated young ladies. Mr. 

 Vivier, a French clergyman, 

 left an estate of about 300/. 

 sterling a year, to this convent, 

 which subsisted till the time of 

 the French revolution in ] 7.93. 

 33. Dominican Friars at Bornhan 

 in Flanders. 

 This convent was founded in the 

 year 1658, by the baron of 

 Bomhem. The first prior of it 

 was Thomas Howard, of Arun- 

 del, afterwards Cardinal How- 

 ard, to whom the establishment 

 was principally owing. These 

 religious afterwards kept a con- 

 siderable college for the educa- 

 tion of youth, which continued 

 to flourish till the time of their 

 flightjOn account of the French 

 invasion of the Low Countries, 

 in 1794. 



Besides this convent, the 

 aforenamed cardinal Howard 

 founded another in Rome for 

 English Dominicans; but it 

 was suppressed soon after- 

 wards, for which reason it is 

 not enumerated here. Vid. 

 Sanderi Flandria Illustrata, 

 Vol. in. p. 255, 256. 



34. Dominican College in Louvain. 

 This little establishment was 



wholly destined for the studies 

 of the youngreligious of Bom- 

 hem in philosophy and divinity. 

 On that account it enjoyed the 

 privileges of the university of 

 Louvam. It fell of course with 

 the mother-house in 1794- 



35. Poor- Clares, at Aire, iuArloise. 

 This community of contempla- 

 tive women was established 

 about the year l660, by some 

 nuns from Gravelines, under 

 the direction of the English 

 Recollects of Douay. It fell 

 like the rest in 1793. 



36. Benedictine Nuns at Dunkirk. 

 These religious ladies were esta- 

 blished in 1 662, by lady Mary 

 Caryll (who was their first ab- 

 bess) and eleven associates, all 

 professed nuns of the English 

 monastery at Ghent; but the 

 establishment being made, five 

 of these returned to Ghent, 

 and two others of them went 

 to Ipres to begin a like founda- 

 tion there in 1665. This last 

 afterwards became whollycom- 

 posedoflrishBenedictinenuns, 

 part of whom, in the reign of 

 king James II. went over to 

 Dublin; the rest remained at 

 Ipres till the French invasion 

 in 1 794, when they fled. 



The English monastery at 

 Dunkirk had formerly con- 

 siderable funds,but a great part 

 of them were lost in the Missis- 

 sippi bubble in 1720. The 

 nuns, besides their regular 

 duties, were employed in the 

 education of young ladies. 

 37. Dominican Nuns in Brussels. 

 These religious women were esta- 

 blished in 1 690, in a large old 

 house in Brussels, called the 



