Registers of the English Poor Clares at Gravelines, Including Those Who Founded Filiations at Aire, Dunkirk and Rouen
Note on this edition: this edition simplifies the punctuation for the benefit of the modern reader and expands all abbreviations. Originally published in Registers of the English Poor Clares at Gravelines, including those who founded filiations at Aire, Dunkirk and Rouen, 1608-1837, contributed by William Martin Hunnybun, annotated by Joseph Gillow, Catholic Record Society, Misc. IX, Vol. 14, 1914. Page numbers correspond to this volume. 31 THIS BOOK CONTAINETH THE NAMES, AGES, AND TIMES OF PROFESSIONS, OF ALL THE RELIGIOUS, THAT HAVE BEEN RECEAVED IN THIS CONVENT OF NAZARETH OF THE POOR CLARES ERECTED IN THE TOWN OF GRAVELING, TOGEATHER ALSO WITH THE DAY AND YEAR OF THEIR DECEASE. AND FIRST MENTION IS MADE OF ALL THOSE WHO FOR THE BEGINNING AND ESTABLISHING OF THE SAID MONASTARY BY VERTUE OF OBEDIENCE WEAR TAKEN OUT OF THE CONVENT OF THE POOR CLARES IN THE TOWN OF SAINT OMERS. ANNO DOMINI 32 ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHT THE 7TH DAY OF NOVEMBER (1) Sister Margarett Fowler, now call’d Sister Clare of St John, Sister Mary Goudge, now named Sister Mary of St Stephen, and Sister Elizabeth Darrell, now call’d Sister Lucy of St John, with two lay sisters, the one being of the French nation, call’d Sister Antonettte of St John, and the other of the English, called Sister Ann Campion, by Commandment & Vertue of Holy Obedience were taken forth of the Convent of the Poor Clares situated in the town of Saint Omers to begin this Convent in Graveline of our English nation; of all which number Sister Mary Goudge was Publickly Elected Abbeyss on
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