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32. Conceptionist Nuns in Paris.
On the breaking up of the convent of Franciscan nuns at Nieuport in 1658, as was mentioned above, (No 21) Angela Jerningham and six others of those nuns went to Paris, and in 1660 they put themfelves under the rules of the order of the Conception, and along with their other religious duties educated young ladies. Mr. Vivier, a French clergyman, left an estate of about £.300 fterling a year to this convent, which subsisted till the time of the French revolution in 1793.
33. Dominican Friars at Bornhem in Flanders.
This convent was founded in the year 1658 by the baron of Bornhem. The first prior of it was Thomas Howard of Arundel, afterwards cardinal Howard, to whom the establimment was principally owing. These religious afterwards kept a considerable college for the education of youth, which continued to flourish till the time of their flight on account of the French invasion of the Low Countries in 1794.
Besides this convent, the aforenamed cardinal Howard founded another in Rome for English Dominicans; but it was suppressed soon afterwards, for which reason it is not enumerated here. Vid. Sanderi Flandria Illustrata, Vol. III. p. 355, 236.
34. Dominican College in Louvain.
This little establishment was wholly destined for the studies of the young religious of Bornhem in philosophy and divinity. On that account it enjoyed the privileges of the university of Louvain. It fell of course with the mother-house in 1794.
35. Poor-