ANTIQUITIES. 



431 



Spellekens, havinga large gar- 

 den annexed to it. About the 

 year 1777 their house threaten- 

 ing ruin, they built, in the up- 

 per part of their garden, a 

 handsome new convent and 

 church. They were not ori- 

 ginally employed in the edu- 

 cation of youngpersons of their 

 sex ; but the edicts of the em- 

 peror Joseph II. in 1782, por- 

 tending suppression to all the 

 convents of nuns that were not 

 so employed, these Dominica- 

 nesses got some scholars, and 

 remained unmolested till their 

 flight on the approach of the 

 French to Brussels, June, 1 794'. 



^8. SchoolatEsquerchiimearDoiiay. 

 This was founded about the mid- 

 dle of the present century, by 

 the late honourable James Tal- 

 bot, afterwards bishop. He 

 destined it for the education of 

 boys in the lower schools of the 

 classics, thereby to disburthen 

 the great college of Douay, to 

 which he gave it, of that part 

 of its charge ; and also for the 

 sake of greater salubrity and 

 space for children in the coun- 

 try, than could be had in the 

 other. This school fell of course 

 with the college to which it 

 belonged, at the time of the 

 French revolution. 



39- Discalced Cannes at Tongres. 

 This little establishment had been 

 made a few years ago with 

 permission of the prince bishop 

 of Liege, by some English Car- 

 melite friers, professed in fo- 

 reign convents. It had hardly 

 time to gain footing, when it 

 was crushed by the French re- 

 volution in I794. 



Not having been able to 

 find the dates of the following 



religious establishments, Iplace 

 them at the end of this list. 



40, Benedictine Abbey of Lamsp^ing 



in Germany. 

 This abbey is situated in Lower 

 Saxony in the diocese of Hil- 

 desheim, about four leagues 

 south of the city of that name- 

 It is governed by a regular 

 mitred abbot, who, like all the 

 prelates of Germany, enjoys 

 great privileges. I have not 

 learned how it came into the 

 hands of the English congre- 

 gation of St. Benedict, to which 

 it belongs. 



41 , Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre 



in Liege. 

 These religious ladies flourished 

 greatly under the direction of 

 the late Jesuits, as also in the 

 education of young persons of 

 their own sex. The French 

 invasion put an end to them in 

 1794. 



42, 43, 44, Carmelites, or Teresian 



Nuns at Antwerp, Lier, and 

 Hoogstraete. 

 The nuns of these three convents 

 were entirely given up to a 

 contemplative life. In 1789 

 a part of them went over to 

 Maryland, to make a new esta- 

 blishment of their order : the 

 rest fled from the French in- 

 vasion in 1794. 

 These, as far as I was ever able 

 tolearn,areallthe English religious 

 establishments that have been made 

 on the continent of Europe since the 

 beginning of the reign of queen 

 Elizabeth. Of all this number, I 

 believe, there only now remain the 

 three colleges of secular clergy at 

 Rome, Valladolid, and Lisbon, the 

 Benedictine abbey of Lamspring in 

 Germany, with the nuns of Lisbon 

 and Munich. 



