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1790 by the law prohibiting the taking of Religious vows, and the Fathers moved to Bruges where they set up a College. In Dec. 1791 the ten fathers left at Douai were placed under arrest, and in 1793 they took refuge in the house of the English Carmelites at Tongres, whence in 1794 they migrated to London . They then numbered sixteen : in 1838 only nine survived ; jurisdiction over the Taunton nuns being given up in 1837. They left with the sisters their ancient Register which is here reproduced . Owing to the misfortunes of their latter days this manuscript is perhaps the principal surviving record of the persecution period of English Franciscan history. The Province was, canonically , broken up circa 1841 , but was restored in 1858 when the four survivors of the Second Province handed over their Seal to the Belgian Fathers who came to succeed them and found the Third Province . During the existence of the Second Province six Friars gave their lives as Martyrs for the faith and several died in Prison . The Friars did excellent work on the Mission : in 1668 it was reported that they were doing more for Religion in a day than other Missionaries could do in a month . (Prop. Arch., Scritture Referite nei Congressi , Anglia t. I. f . 12). The sympathies of St Bonaventure's seem to have been strongly Jacobite one may judge by the terms in which the usurper William III is alluded to never as King, but as the Prince of Orange (p. 278 impia Principis Auriaci persecutio " ) and the " Orange wolf " (p . 281 Lupo Auriaco " ). am mainly indebted to Guilday's " English Catholic Refugees on the Continent " for the foregoing . See also Stone, Faithful unto Death : an account of the English Franciscans during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries London, 1892 : Cath. Rec. Soc . , vol. (Miscellanea), p. 43 Sander's Report to Moroni ) : Sander, " Rise of the Anglican Schism : ( Thaddeus , The Franciscans in England , 1600-1850, being an authentic account of the Second English Province of the Friars Minor, 1898 : Documents relatifs a l'établissementà Douai des récollets anglais," in " Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclesiastique de la Bélgique, 1875, t. XII , p. 264 ss : Gillow, Dictionary of English Catholics " : Mason, " CertamenSeraphicum : Autographical and GenealogicalNote-Book of the Ven. Arthur Bell, O.S.F. Cath. Rec. Soc ., vol . I : Dom Bede Camm's " Forgotten Shrines " : Oliver, Collections : Petre's " Convents and Colleges. "
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