No I. RECORDS OF THE ENGLISH CANONESSES OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF LIEGE , NOW AT NEW HALL. 1652-1793. EDITED BY RICHARD TRAPPES-LOMAX.
A history of this community was printed for private circulation, on the occasion of its Centenary at New Hall, in 1899 ; and to it am indebted for the following brief account : — About 1480 , one John à Broeck, a Canon Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, established a Monastery at Mount St. Odile , near Cologne, and another a few years later at Kinroy, near Maesych on the Meuse. This he soon after transformed into a Convent of Canonesses . The Order flourished , and rapidly spread over the Low Countries. In 1641 , Susan Hawley and Frances Carey entered the Sepulchrine Convent at Tongres , with a view to founding an English Convent of the same order. In the autumn of the following year they established themselves at Liége , accompanied by a Belgian lay sister and a Mother Margaret of the Tongres Community. They settled in a house on the Hill of Pierreuse . In 1656 they nunibered fifteen choir nuns , four young professed, and four novices . After ten years on the Pierreuse they moved to a house in the Faubourg d'Avroy (1655-6 ) . In 1794 the Revolutionary wars compelled them to move to Maestricht, and thence to London. After a two years ' stay at Holme Hall , near Market Weighton, in Yorkshire, they moved to Dean House , near Salisbury, and in 1798 to New Hall. The following records from the Convent Archives comprise : A. The Chapter Book. B. The Benefactors ' Book. C. The " Dead Book, or Necrology . D. An Account of the Beginning of the Convent at Liège . E. An Account of the Revolutionary Troubles , migration to
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England, and settlement at New Hall. F. Lists of the girls at the Convent School , 1770-1799 . G. Notes of Deaths from the Book of Pensioners and Boarders . H. Charities received , 1651-1663 . Accounts of Pupils and Boarders , 1651-1777 . I. The above have been transcribed by Mother Aloysia James ( Kendal) and Sister Ann Frances (Trappes- Lomax). R.T.-L.
A THE CHAPTER BOOK. The size of this is 12 inches by 7 , and about an inch thick. It is bound in vellum . Parts I and III occupy about 55 pages , or rather less than a quarter of the whole. Parts II , IV, and V alluded to in the introductory note are blank. At the back end of the book are
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noted records of domestic matters settled by the Chapter, the spending is headed : " In this Booke are Noted of money on buildings, etc. A
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