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No. III . A. ENGLISH DOMINICAN BOOKS AND PAPERS . CONTRIBUTED BY THE VERY REV . BEDE JARRETT , O.P. MEMORIALE FFUM PRÆDICATORUM ANGLORM CONVENTUS BORNHEMIENSIS BOOK IN WHICH ARE SETT DOWN ALL ACCOUMPTS AND CONTRACTS WHICH WEE HAVE WITH OTHER PEOPLE February ye 17th 1669 B° LAWRENCE THWAITS.
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and last are scribbled a number of addresses. DominickGwillns, direct for Captain Gwillm in St. AlbansStreet next dore to ye chyurgean's armes , to be sent to Mr. Jacops. For F. Dom Guavana. A Monseur Albia Gentill homme a recommandé au Portier a l'Ambassadeur d'Espanye a wilde house, Londres. For Mr. Millard Smith next dore to the Golden Plow in Bloomsberry fish market. To Mr. Smith in Crossgate , Durham , recommended to the Post office , London . Mrs. Anne Hodgkinson , living with Mrs. Clifton at Mr. Robert Strickland's in S. James , London . In ye county, Mrs. Anne Hodgkinson , at Lytham nigh Preston in Lancashire. For Mr. John Jacobs at ye honable Resident of ye Grand Duke of Tuscany, the haymarket , London . Also there is this note upside down on final flyleaf:] Fae Mgr Collins was instituted Prior of Bornhem ye 23 of August 1685 before 6 a Clock in ye morning. On ye twelfth of May in ye year of our Lord one thousand six hundred & sixty four Mr Mathew Bedingfield Gent in Bruxels, with 200 pound Sterling or two thousand gilders belonging to the deposition of this Community of English Fryers Preachers in Bornhem , bought of ye Town of Bruxels a yearly rent of one hundred florins , wch yearly rent of 100 florins the sayd Matth . Bedingfd bought as for ye fathers of our Convent & Order at Bruxels , because otherwise it had bin bought in our name (wee being strangers) any citizen of ye town might Clayme right to ye Rent, restoring our capitall to us. But ye Convent of Bruxels hath made a sollemne declaration in forme of a Reuversall signed by ye Prior, Subprior& Fathers ofye Councel & sealed with ye Seale of ye Convent whereby they acknowledge & vouch that ye sayd rent of 100 flo : wholly & totally belongeth to us English Fryers Preachers at Bornhem as appears by ye sayd writt dated ye 13 of September 1667. Ye conditions & grounds of ye contract are particularly to be seen, in ye originall
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