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(2) A number who enteredthe Society before Catholic Emancipation are not. to be found in Foley's list becausethey were still living when he wrote
They have all been included in the dictionary. 3 ( ) From 1803 surviving membersof the suppressed Society werereadmitted they wished. An article on this subject is in Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu vol. XLII. 4) Afterthe suppressionthe Jesuits did not return to Scotland until 1859 and from then on Scotland was part of the English province . (5) At the Restoration of the Society the English Jesuits were stationed at Stonyhurst , at HodderPlace nearby or on missions throughoutEngland and Wales. The restored province developed from these beginnings. (6) St Mary'sHall, Stonyhurst , was the house of studies for philosophy from 1830 till 1926 and for theology from 1830 till 1848 when St Beuno's College wasopened as the theologate and remained so until 1926. 7) HodderPlace, Stonyhurst , was the noviceship and tertianship from 1803 till 1854. A preparatory school also was opened there in 1807 . (8) Beaumont Lodge was the noviceship from 1854 till 1861 when a houseat Roehampton was acquired for that purpose . Beaumont Lodge then became a boarding school Beaumont College. 9) Because of lack of facilities and otherdifficultiesin England early in the nineteenth century the young Jesuits were often sent abroad for their noviceship and studies. ( 10) In the nineteenth century the English province cared at various times for missions in Bengal, Jamaica, British Honduras , British Guiana and Barbados and a College in Malta. Some of the Jesuits in thisdictionary worked in thesemissions. Themission in Southern Africa wasentrusted to the English province towards the end of thecentury. wishto thank the following who have kindly been of assistance to me in various waysin the preparation of this dictionary theArchivist of St Mary's Priory, Fernham , Oxfordshire ; the Reverend F. Edwards , S.J.; Mr. J. H. Hopkins , Librarian of the Society ofAntiquaries of London; the ReverendT. McCoog, S.J .; Professor H. Mattingly of New York University; Miss E. Poyser, Archivist of the Archdiocese ofWestminster ; Lt.-Colonel L. de C. F. Robertson , O.B.E., K.S.G .; the Reverend F. J. Turner, S.J. , Librarianat Stonyhurst College; Sister Mildred Murray- Sinclair , O.S.B. of St Scholastica's Abbey, Teignmouth ; Mr. M. Walsh and Mr. S. Poole of the HeythropCollege Library; Mr. J. A. Williams . Specialgratitude is due to the ReverendW. Vincent Smithfor the troublehe took in providing me with copies of papers, the results of his own researches . wish to thank also Mr. A. F. Allison and Mr. P.R. Harris ofthe EditorialCommittee ofthe Catholic Record Society .
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