12. Benedictine Monks of Douay. This monaftery was a college belonging to the rich abbey of Benedictines of St. Vedaft, or Vaaft of Arras, where their young monks refided during their studies in the university of Douay. The buildings being much greater than were neceflary for that purpose, the abbey granted a part of them to fome English monks of the fame order that were profeffed in different houfes on the continent, on condition that they performed all the choir offices in the church of the college, in place of the monks of St. Vedaft. This ceffion was made in the year 1604, or 1605; and this monaftery afterwards became confiderable, not only as a convent of monks, but likewife as a college for the education of youth in claffical learning. It was governed by a prior, and fubfifted till 1793, when all that remained in the houfe were feized and imprifoned with circumstances of the moft wanton cruelty. 13. Jefuits of Watten.

This was the noviciate of the Jefuits, and was begun at Louvain, in the year 1605, by father Parfons; but by a grant made to them by the bifliop of St. Omer's of the monaftery of Watten, a houfe before belonging to canon regulars of St. Auguftine, they foon removed thither. The bithop's deed was dated April 11, 1611. The yearly income thereof amounted to about 3000 florins. Watten is only two leagues from St. Omer's, on the canal

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Benedictine Monks of Deulwart. Deulouart is a town in Lorraine, on the Mofelle, not far from Pont-a-Mouffon. The monal tery was given by the cardinal of Lorraine, in the year 1606, to fome Benedictine monks of the English nation. Befides the monaftery they had a college for the education of youth. Both fubfifted till crushed by the French revolution.

Jefuiteles. This inftitution was first attempted at St. Omer's in the year 1608, by Mrs. Mary Ward, and by the perfuafion and af fiftance of father Roger Lee, an English Jefuit; but could never obtain an approbation from the pope. In the year 1622 poverty obliged them to break up at St. Omer's; and a few of them obtained a precarious refidence in the diocele of Cologne. Thefe, in the year 1629, fought to fettle at Liege; but being difcountenanced there, they foon alter removed to Munich, the capi tal of Bavaria, where they pro eured a handfome fettlement, which I believe they fill enjoy. Their chief employment is the education of young per fons of their own fex,

16. Auguftine Nuns in Louvain. Thefe canonefles of St. Auftin were first established in the year 1609, by Mrs. Mary Wifeman, a profeffed nun of the Flemish convent of St. Urfula, in Louvain. They were governed by a priorels, and educated young ladies. This houfe enjoyed confiderable funds, and fubfifted till the French invafion in 1794, when the members of it fled out of the Low Countries.

17. Benedictine Nuns in Paris. This priory was firft founded at St. Malo, in the year 1611, by Giffard, archbishop of Rheims, who before his elevation to that fee had been the first prefident of the English congregation of St. Benedict. The French king not permitting this houfe to continue at St. Malo, on account of the proximity of this place to England, archbishop Giffard procured them another at Paris, which afterwards (in 1642) was changed for one in the Rue St. Jaques, where they remained till 1793, when they were involved in the common deftruction of the French revolution. During their existence in Paris, thele monks enjoyed all the privi leges of the univerfity, with regard to ftudies, degrees, and benefices annexed to the degrees; and it was by means of thefe laft that the houfe enjoyed confiderable revenues.

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Soon after the establishment of this monaftery in Paris, father Francis Walgrave, a member of it, obtained from the rich Benedictine abbey of Marmou

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tier near Tours, the religious cell called La Celle en brie, in the diocele of Meaux, twelve leagues eaft of Paris, which he refigned up to the priory at Paris, and to which it remained annexed till the fall of both in 1793. A fuperior, and two or three religious of the monaftery at Paris refided in it, and kept a fchool for the education of youth in claffical learning. This religious foundation had anciently been handfomely endowed, and had an extenfive lordship annexed to it. Jefaits College in Liege. This was founded for the education of youth in claffical learning, in the year 1616, by George Talbot, afterwards earl of Shrewsbury. He, in 1626, obtained of the duke of Bavaria, prince bishop of Liege, to fettle on this college an annual penfion, being the intereft of 200,000 florins. It fubfifted on this footing till the extinction of the Jefuits in 1773, when it changed its name into that of an English Academy, at the fame time extending its plan of education; and it remained in the hands of thofe to whom it had belonged before, till the French occupied Liege in 1794.

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Francifcan Recollects in Doucy. This convent was begun in 1617, by father John Gennings, afterwards their first provincial fuperior. It had no other fchool than that of the ftudies of the religious of the houfe, which enjoyed, in that refpect, the privileges of the univerfity of Douay. It fubfifted in a flourishing condition till the

French

French revolution put an end to it, in 1793; at which time all the friers that remained in it found means of escaping out of France in difguife; whereas the remaining members of all the other English establishments, both of men and women, in France, were feized, imprisoned, and treated in the moft barbarous manner that wanton cruelty could invent, being fhut up, without diftinction of age or fex, in churches that had been plunderéd of every thing; where they remained deprived of all the ne ceffaries of life, a little fcanty food excepted.

21. Nuns of the third Order of St. Francis.

These religious women were a colony from the convent at Gravelines, and they were first fettled at Nieuport, in Flanders, about the year 1620, by means of father John Gennings, the eftablifher of thofe of Gravelines, and of the Recollects, in Douay, whofe zeal in this refpect was indefatigable. In the year 1658 thefe nuns were obliged to leave Nieuport on account of the war and inundations, and part of them removed to Bruges, into a houfe called the Princen-hoff, because it had formerly been a part of the palace of the counts of Flanders. They were employed in the education of young perfons of their fex, and their community remained confiderably numerous, till they were driven out of Flanders by the invafion of the French in 1794. 22. Jefuits at Ghent

This eftablishment was made in

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the year 1622. It was ftyled
the Profeffed-house, and was
deftined chiefly for the aged
and infirm, and for fuch as
were unable to perform the
active functions of the fociety.
The houfe was fmall, and of
little appearance. In 1763
the noviciate, beforetimes at
Watten, as was faid above,

was placed here; but the extinction of the fociety in 1773 put an end to both. College at Libon. This was founded by the liberality of Don Pedro de Coutinho, a Portuguese gentleman, at the perfuafion of the reverend William Wiseman, an English clergyman refiding at Lisbon. It was confirmed by a brief from Rome, dated September 22, 1622, with the annual revenue of 500 gold crowns given to it by the faid Don Pedro de Coutinho. The firft prefident, profeffors, and fcholars, were fent thither from the English college at Douay in 1628; and it has ever fince been under the direction of lecular clergy, and remains fo ftill.

Benedictine Nuns in Cambray. This abbey was begun in the year 1623, by Mrs. Frances Gavin and two others, all profelled nuns of the monaftery at Bruffels. The establishment was made chiefly by means of father Rudifind Barlow, prefident of the English congregation of St. Benedict, to which it ever after remained subject. These nuns, befides the regular duties of their order, were occupied in the education of young ladies. In 1793 they under