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DIARY OF THE" BLUE NUNS."
an account of what we owe. Mde Caille Boulangere To Mr Herivaux for wood. To M1' Remy Butcher To Mr Cimetiere Frutier Servants wages To 2 Grocers To 2 Mercers To the joiner & smith Milk woman & Grainier To Mesdames de Laye & la Loy The washer woman . To the Cooper, Glazier, & Brick layer. To a Notary What our expences exceed the Receipts To the mason, painter, tyler .
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Total of what we owe from which deducting what is owing to us We remain indebted ye sum of .
25261L 1421 176 3 1212 945 602 701 242 308 175 241 -
10 - 6 12 4 7 7 12 - 3 19 - 6 6 6- 6 2- 6 17 -
92
53 - 8 - 6 639 - 14 lI336 - 6 - 9 10832 - 00 - 9 5041L 6.
June ye lIth Rd Mother Abbess gave ye years accompts to the Community from ye 1st June 1778 to ye 26 th May 1779, & also the Estate of the House as above. [Sister Wine/rid Stock continues.]
The 3d of June Mother Ursula Staffords 3 years of being Abbess was expired, but that day being the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, our superiour M1' L'Abbe Godescard differ'd the Election to Monday the 14th of the same month, on WCIl Day he came between 9 & 10 o'clock in the morning to preside at it, accompanied by Jlifl' Louis Jean Nicolas Pin got Canon of the Collegial Church of St Merry, and Mr Fran<;ois Joseph Marie Pierre Preist to be witnesses, the Discreets having desired our Superiour to choose them himself. In the first scrutiny Mother Bernard Green was chose abbess & sr Augustine Lloyd Vicaress. Mother Anthony Sharp was chose Discreet in the place of St1' Catherine Threlfall Deceased : the rest as to be seen in its proper place. The Day following our Rd Mother Abbess called her Chapter at which her Rce appointed the following officers-Str Clementina [Sackville] first Mrs of the Quire, sr Lucy [Talbot] first Mrs of the Scholars, sr Edward [Lewis] first Sacristine, sr Bonaventura [Parker] Second Portress, Sr Clare [Bell] Infirmarian & 2nd Mrs of the Quire, Sr Laurence [Aston] Second Sacristine, sr Anne [Duffield] second Mrs of the scholars. July ye 13 th Melle Marie Courault Daughter to a Negotiant at Nantes came to be Pensioner allmost 13 years old: she pays the usuall pension of 600 ll : the 15 th of the same month Miss Hopton (Sarah) & Miss Anne Kelly came to pension here for some time & are to pay 400 11 a year each. The 23 d of the same month Mary Southworth came from Lancashire with a desire to be a Lay Sister; was reccomended by Mr Hadley a Benedictine monk & admitted