Records Volume 62: The Letter Book of Lewis Sabran, S.J.

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loan from the Stonyhurst Archives of a Xeroxed copy of the Letter Book, to the President of Ushaw College for permission to quote from the Ushaw manuscripts, to Miss E. Poyser, the Archivist of the Archdiocese of Westminster for allowing me to see manuscripts and to quote from them and to the Catholic Record Society for permitting me to consult their library. I would also like to thank Mr. R. Browne, the Librarian at Farm Street, for much kind and patient help, to Mr. P. Coverdale and the late Sir George Clutton for their assistance with genealogies , to Mrs. M. J. Hartharnfor information abouttheAudleyfamily, to Fr. C. K. Macadam for transcribing a document in the Stonyhurst Archives , to Fr. M. Richards of St. Edmund's College, Ware for information about the College archives, to Fr. B. Payne, the Librarian at Ushaw College for providing me with Xeroxed copies of papers, to Fr. W. V. Smith of Lanchester for informing me of the whereabouts of papers concerning Fr. Sabran. also wish to thank Jesuit colleagues who have helped with advice onI points of detail. November , 1967 November , 1969.

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Records Volume 62: The Letter Book of Lewis Sabran, S.J.

Published on Jan 1, 1971

The Catholic Record Society

The manuscript of Fr. Lewis Sabran's Letter Book is in Brussels (Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique No. 4177). It seems likely that it was seized by the government of the Austrian Netherlands in 1773. The history of St. Omers College was retold recently by the late Fr. Hubert Chadwick in his St. Orners to Stonyhurst. The College was founded in 159,3 by Fr. Robert Persons in what was then Spanish territory with the assistance of Philip II. One reason for the foundation was the proposal in England to take the children of Catholic parents from the parents at the age of seven and place them with approved Protestants to be brought up as Protestants. The College continued at St. Omers as a school for boys from England until 1762. That part of the Netherlands had become French territory in 1678 and in 1762 the College was involved in the expulsion of the Jesuits from France. It moved to Bruges in the Austrian Netherlands. Then in 1773 the Society of Jesus was suppressed by the Pope.