ACCOUNT
BOOK
OF MR . RALPH CLAVERING,
1763-1764
201
To Passage for self, wife , & servant & Dinner for Do aboard ye Boat from Ghent to Bruges 8 Leag .
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To some wine at Ghent 4 10 Το my Sis Barbara being a Present 24 72 To the Augustin Nuns * for a treat To wine & vaills there . To some Pious books To Dunkirk Bill 155 10 To an old Servant 6 To Coach hire To Custom House officers at Mardike & Graveline 6 To the Carriage of my Trunk from Paris to Dunkirk 14 21 To the Nuns Gravelin , † Charity 24 To Henry Richardson's Book for severals, from June ye 2d to that Day Inclusively 3318 22 To the Bill at Calais one day 27 To the Poor 6 To the Custom House 3 44756
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To ye servants To Porteredge
Deduct as on the following Page
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landed at Dover in cash, ex-
when I I had clusive of 5 guineas received from Mr
Ohannelly to be laid out for him. N.B. I remitted English money to Mr Wright 200 value French 4702 paid for severals on the following day value value French English £ 18. 4. 2 438
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5140
N.B. This sum is to be deducted from the Total Disbursed on the foregoing Page ; the Remainder will be the neat sum expended from July 3 , 1763 , To August 23 , 1764 viz during my stay in France . The English Canonesses of St. Austin at Bruges were an offshoot from the convent at Louvain , and were established in 1629. They came to England in 1794, but returned to Bruges after the Peace of Amiens , and still flourish there. The Convent of English Franciscan Nuns ( Poor Clares ) was established at Gravelines in 1609. They came to England in 1794, and eventually joined the Franciscan Community at Catterick , Yorkshire .