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it came into the hands of the Englifh congregation of St. Benedict, to which it belongs.

41. Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, in Liege.

These religious ladies flourished greatly under the direction af the late Jesuits, as also in the education of young persons of their own sex. The French invasion put an end to them in 1794.

42, 43, 44. Carmelites, or Teresian Nuns at Antwerp, Lier, and Hoogstræte.

The nuns of these three convents were entirely given up to a contemplative life. In 1789 a part of them went over to Maryland, to make a new establishment of their order; the rest fled from the French invasion in 1794.

These, as far as I was ever able to learn, are all the English religious establishments that have been made on the Continent of Europe since the beginning of the reign of queen Elizabeth. Of all this number, I believe, there only now remain the three colleges of secular clergy at Rome, Valladolid, and Lisbon, the Benedictine abbey of Lamspring in Germany, with the nuns of Lisbon and Munich.

A more extensive account of the foundation of many of these houses, and of the persons who established them, may be had in Dodd's Church History of England, printed at Brussels in 1737, 3 vols. in folio; in the Flandria Illustrata of Sanderus, 3 vols. in fol. the Brabantia Illustrata, 3 vols. in folio; and other such histories of the countries where any of these establishments were made. What I have said above of the origin, nature, and present fate of each, suffices for the end I proposed to myself in this short account of them.

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