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THE ENGLISH BENEDICTINE NUNS OF THE CONVENT OF OUR BLESSED LADY OF GOOD HOPE IN PARIS , NOW ST. BENEDICT'S PRIORY, COLWICH, STAFFORDSHIRE. NOTES AND OBITUARIES. CONTRIBUTED BY THE REV. MOTHER PRIORESS OF COLWICH, O.S.B. EDITED BY JOSEPH S. HANSOM. THE FIRST BOOK.
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Some perticuler Remarkes of our venerable MotherBeginners yt came from The English Benedictine Monastery of the Truely vertues & Religious Dames of our Blessed Lady of Consolation in the Towne of Cambray. And a Register , with the Remarkes of all ye rest of our Rd Mothers, sisters, of this our Monastery of our Bles : Lady & Religious of Good Hope in Paris . Deceased since the yeare of our
Lord 1652.
Our Constutions in the first chapter, and 13 clause , haveing ordained that A Register should be made , of al the names , of the Religious that are departed this life, with such Remarkablethings as hath happened concerning them in Life, Death, & after death, to be sett downe for an example & memory to posterity & keept in Depositum ; therfore to complie with these our solid and Descreet Constitutions , and the wil of our v Rd Mother Prioress, Rd Mo : Agnes Temple of the Infant Jesus , as also ye great obligations we have to our venerable Mother - beginners, & that ye Memory of their vertues should be the more Deeply imprinted in our harts , and make us like good children faithfully walke in ye same paths ; they did with so much labour trace out for us. These powerfull reasons moved us to set downe some perticulers, Tho : uncapable of makeing due Remarkesaccording to their merites, For if we neclected the doeing this in our Times who had the knowledg of them It could not be expected from others that follow us to doe it, knowing little or nothing of them ; Likewise or gratitude requireing it of us. We also have made some briefe Remarkes of the Rest of our Rd Mothers & Religious Sisters Deceased ; of this our Monastery . It being the practis . of our Mother house of Cambray and other Communitys . In al which Relations we have held a Low & plain stile that The Truth & sencerity may more cleerly apeare wch was that we cheifely regarded . And for the Register that our Constitus in the same chap : also ordains to be made of our Spiritual & Temporal Benefactors deceased, we referr ye Reader to the Book wherin they are written in perticuler, for to be read on ye day of their departure as are our Religious, therfore doe onely heere speake of venble Father Baker & some of ye Relations of or v Rd Mother Justina Gascoigne. Str AGNES OF THE JNFANT JESUS . † Priouresse unworthy Str THERESA DE JNFANTE JESUS , C. Str ELIZABETH DE Str MARIA, C.§ notes see the end of the paper . For editorial * + Temple , xxxiv . +Cook, XXXVII. § Cook , XXXVIII.
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