RM2AM4E5D–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . 227. CHAPTER THE SIXTY-FIRST. the 19TH General Chapter, confirmation of the Bull Plantata. James IPs allocution to the Bishop and Regulars. The 1.9th General Chapter was held at St. James, where R.F. Joseph Shirburn was continued President. Second eled: President, likewise continued. Provincial of Canterbury, R. F Austin Ll
RM2AM4HC8–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . ST. I65 very title. I have nothing more to add of the author besideswhat I gather from the epitaph on his grave in front of St.Benedicts altar in the English monastery of St. Gregory atDouay ; it is as follows: Here lies the body of Sir Herbert Croft, Knight, born in Eng-land in the County of Hereford, a prudent, able and h
RM2AM4JPR–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . 35. CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SIXTH. THE TROUBLES CAUSED BY Fr. BARNES. THE BEGINNING OF St. Edmunds Convent at Paris, the literarylabours of father augustine baker. Father Barnes was clothed in St. Benedicts of Valladolidon the 12th of March, 1604, and professed the next year on the21st of March and made Priest on the 20th of Sep
RM2AM4RFG–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . still held upin stridt observance. Yet our ancestors who were always mostobedient to the orders of the See Apostolic humbly submitted toBenedicts alterations, and united their two Innocentian Provincesinto one, governed by two President Generals and a determinatenumber of Definitors and Visitors to be renewed every threeyea
RM2AM4M23–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . a man.And though he may pretend his disgrace at Court was on goodaccount, his bloody barbarity is easily answered. Had he been a 84 CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH. harmless, innocent soul such sufferings might have brought hima crown of justice; but to him an alien from the Church, andshedding the blood of the Priests of the Ch
RM2AM4MM0–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . ac si proprium esset perpetuo fore jucun-dissimum. Ceterum illam benevalere et a Deo prospera omniaconsequi desidero. Roma: die X Maii. MDCVIII.Paternitatis vestrae uti Frater Card. Montaltus. Which for those who are strangers to Latin I have thusEnglished : Verv Reverend Father, It seems to belong to the charge of Protecto
RM2AM4NJT–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . l (Worcester College)and another at Cambridge called Monks College and Bucking-ham College (St. Peters) because the Duke of Buckingham hadbeen a great benefactor to it. These Colleges were common tothose houses of the Congregation which had not places of studyin those Universities. The Congregation frequented for its Genera
RM2AM4HNF–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . has any rapport to it. Behold the words of the decree. Ut ritum et quodcumque aliud ad mancipatum ejusmodipertinens statim rejiciant. Ut novus hie Beatae Virginis mancipatus omnino aboleaturcontrariis quibuscumque non obstantibus. We are not properly to call ourselves the slaves of anycreature not even of the most glorious
RM2AM4KBD–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . at fifteen years and nine months. The same year died Philip III, king of Spain a?tat. 43, regni23, who recommended the Fathers of Douay to the Arch-DukeAlbert, who also died the same year aet. 62, much lamented bythe Flemings. How much the Congregation is indebted to hispiety for the establishment of Douay Convent is alread
RM2AM4RT3–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . 22. CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. SEVERAL AGES OF THE CONGREGATION. The first age therefore or rather infancy of the Congregationwas under the government of St. Augustine and his successors,when that great Apostle and DocTior of our English Churcheffected what the great St. Augustine and Dodtor of the CatholicChurch attempted but uns
RM2AM4F1X–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . fDouay), it went harder, for he was irremissibly executed, a poorharmless soul, whom those miscreants wickedly impeached ofhaving designed the Kings death, which the King himselfopenly declared he was convinced was false. But so violent 220 CHAPTER THE FIFTV-EIGHTH. were those times, that he himself was constrained for a ti
RM2AM4R25–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . 29. CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH. the English Benedictines re-established byQueen Mary. —>—^&^ ^ The pious and virtuous Mary had no sooner succeeded him,but her first care was to reduce her people to the obedienceof the Church, her next to re-establish the dispersed andafflidted Benedictine Order as the best means to keep hersub
RM2AM4CDY–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . ony it was.This was the same year the King died. The anniversary day was kept more solemn yet than the40th ; for the Bishop of Autun officiated. Anno 1703, September 15th, the Queen, (her two years ofmourning being out, very privately and in incognito as herMajesty does still betwixt whiles,) visited her royal Consortstomb.
RM2AM4KT0–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SECOND. CONTAINING NOTICES OF SEVERAL FATHERS OF THE CON-GREGATION WHO DIED ABOUT THIS TIME. The said year of the Union on the 12th of July ( 1617) atHarding in Flintshire, R. F Thomas Minshall admitted to thehabit in the mission, a man very diligent in the performance ofhis apostolical duty and highly ch
RM2AM4T4G–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . said to have its rise from St. Robert of Molesme, itsincrease from St. Bernard, yet it obtained not the form andregimen of a Congregation stridtly taken, till the latter days ofthis holy Dodtor, which he obtained from Eugenius III once hisdisciple, and yet there is no one that does not refer the beginningof these Congregati
RM2AM4G7E–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . commen-taries he had seen in manuscript. See concerning this father the40th page of these Notes where I have noted some particularsdeserving remembrance, as also page 46. Likewise died the worthy and pious Dame Frances Gawen, firstAbbess of Cambray as hath been said ( May 7th, 1640). And Fr. Swithbert Latham, brother to the
RM2AM4NPA–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . put to death, to make the nation remember how itreceived the said holy faith and manifest the secrets of his heartand intentions in regard of the Benedictine Order, he chose to bedrawn to Tyburn in the Benedictine habit which by some means hehad provided or gotten, and had his tonsure accordingly made ; con-founding by that
RM2AM4K1X–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . bscribed, proofs may andought to be exacted ; and that against this signify nothing theobjections of some under the name of John Andrew, or Exami-nation of the trophies of the English Congregation, or Gram-matopoeia or Syllabus, whether they be in Latin or French,we know and declare; as also we testify this to be our sentim
RM2AM4JC4–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . e instruction of posterity I shall here add a passage oxwhich he was both eye and ear witness when he was gatheringthese things, as the writers of his life assure, at Sir RobertCottons Library; the which was, says Father Cressy that he heard a discourse between the said knight and Mr. Cambden about a chest of papers which h
RM2AM4FPC–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . r ( 17th, 1657 ) F Michael Gascoigne, brother tothe Abbot of Lambspring, a painful missioner, died in the North,in his return from York homewards. At St. Malos died (August 20th, 1657) F. Maurus Roe,brother to F. Alban Roe who suffered for the faith at London ;among other good qualities, he was an excellent cantor. CHAPTER
RM2AM4Y2K–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . e in the Matrice (or Mother) church of Canterbury. This Isay, is certain ; at least it was so to all former ages. For thoughthis Order was ever attended by that blessing to be hated anddetracted by the world, yet none of her most desperate adversaries 12 CHAPTER THE THIRD. ever dared attack her on that side which they saw s
RM2AM4GA0–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . condemned him were so taken with his modestythat they became earnest supplicants to obtain his life, and theexecutioner abhorring to drive the cart away (whereby the personto be executed falls down half strangled) hid himself and theSheriff could scarce get a man to do so odious an office. He wasa monk of Douay, brought up
RM2AM4DB4–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . 249. CHAPTER THE SIXTY-NINTH. EXTRAORDINARY EFFECTS BY THE INVOCATION OF KlNG James II of holy memory. Anno 1702, the world taking alarm at miracles said to bewrought at King James tomb, on the 18th of February thePrincess of Conde came; on the 6th of April Madame Mainte-non ; on the 17th of April the Duchess of Burgundy ma
RM2AM4PFM–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . Allen, the new Seminary of Dowaywas begun in 1562. The Council of England informed of this,fell to persecuting it by all the ways they could devise, andtherefore first endeavoured to set the Catholics in Englandagainst it, as a thing that would exasperate the State and hindertheir peace in England; and afterwards by the reb
RM2AM4EW9–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . 221. CHAPTER THE FIFTY-NINTH. THE DEATH OF FATHER BENEDICT STAPYLTON. Anno 1680 (August 4) died R. F Bennet Stapylton at Dieu-wart where he lies buried with this epitaph: M. S. R. A. P. Patris Benedict Stapylton Ecclesia? Metropolitans Cantuariensis Prioris Cathedralis Congregationisque Anglo Benedidlinae Prassidis Generali
RM2AM4TFC–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . Church in its beginningwas entirely religious and monastical, and very indifferent fromthe Churches of other Provinces (Alexandria excepted) so themonastical Order engrafted into the Cathedral Churches ofEngland did constitute a certain peculiar Congregation verydifferent from the Order of St. Benedidt in other Provinces ;d
RM2AM50C2–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . Regis et Martyris suburbiis Lutetise Parisi-orum Sanjacobseanis. The Chronological Notes are an abridgment of the two folio volumes of hisHistorical Memoirs of the English Benedictines and were finished in 1709,though a few additions were subsequently made. Two copies of this work arepreserved at St. Gregorys, Downside, and
RM2AM4FP3–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . ry laudably kept steady to this judgment. Furthermore, the house of St. Malo through the admission ofFrench, being become a greater trouble to the Congregation thanit could manage in a foreign country where the Fathers wereunknown and had no friends to support them, they resolved toput it off the best way they could. The Ro
RM2AM4EEP–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . s quarterswere conveyed to Lambspring, where R. F Corker in 1693 shutthem up in the crypt with this inscription : Reliquiae S. memoriae Oliveri Plunket Archiepiscopi Archma-chani, totius Hiberniae Primatis, qui in odium Catholicas Fideilaqueo suspensus, extraftis visceribus et in ignem proje&is CelebrisMartyr occubuit Londi
RM2AM4Y97–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . urchesand particularly of England) ever since she shook off theyoke of secular oppression and enjoyed that liberty wherewithJesus Christ endowed her, better administered than while B IO CHAPTER THE SECOND. St. Benedicts disciples sat in that Chair, nor more generallyvenerated than while monks were her apostles, nor more saf
RM2AM4J1H–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . 142. CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SEVENTH. the foundation of the monastery of our lady of Consolation for the English Benedictine Dames at Cambray. In the year 1625 on t^le ^rst of January, nine young Englishgentlewomen, (brought to Cambray by the Fathers to beginthere an English Nunnery of the Order under the care of theCongregation
RM2AM4MCN–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . 79. CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH. THE BEGINNrNG OF St. MALos CONVENT. > *>— < And this said year 1611 Father Bradshaw having sent F.Gabriel of St. Mary (formerly Dr. Gifford Dean of Lisle) toSpain to obtain help from the Spanish Congregation, his com-munity of Dieulwart being become very numerous withouthaving wherewit
RM2AM4GRX–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . a.This is remarkable, that he being an excellent violist, and havinga bass viol hanging in his cell, the great string thereof brakeasunder whilst he was in his agony and his brethren reciting theLitanies by his bed-side. And soon after he expired. July 6th ( 1632 ), Placid Muttleberry, born in Somersetshire,changing the mis
RM2AM4C2J–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . y of his generous and industrious gratitude. iEternamDeus Optimus Maximus det ei requiem, et lux sandtorumilluceat animas ejus. July 19th. R. F. President arrived here with his Secretary tomake a visit, and so on the 1 ith of August departed for Cambray,while on the 10th at Douay R. F- Hitchcock departed this life,set. 94.
RM2AM4YJX–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . asoncraves it, your undaunted fidelity in the performance of your ho-nourable charge which neither the vexations of the seas or theinconveniences or dangers of the armies on land have been ableto hinder in its progress, your just regulations in your Visitswhich when exactly remembered and followed will ever prove amain supp
RM2AM4N17–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . be the same with that of the restoration of the Abbeyby D. Feckenham in the time of Queen Mary on which circum-stance none of them thought or reflected till all the ceremonyand business was over. Moreover he protests that the good oldFather Sigebert, though almost consumed with misery and ageyet enjoyed his sight to the end
RM2AM4PNY–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . tminster Royal Monastery in his venerable Benedidtine habitwhich the violence of the former wicked times had forced himto lay down. But pious Queen Mary dying not long after, herunworthy successor frustrated all these happy endeavours, mostcruelly and ungratefully turning the Reverend Abbot Feckenhamand his monks out of the
RM2AM4FA6–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . 204. CHAPTER THE FIFTY-FOURTH. the General Chapter of 1666. brief accounts of someof the fathers who died during the ensuing years. The fourteenth General Chapter which last year should havebeen held at Douay was put off till now, because the plague wasvery strong at Douay; and it began at the old Bailey at Londonat the fir
RM2AM4P46–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . ardinals of the Inquisition appre-hended that a higher title might give too great an alarm to theState), the said English Clergy fell absolutely from the Jesuits,esteeming them to be the only persons that thwarted their desires 38 CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH. and designs, to make all things depend on their secret ordersand intent
RM2AM4DM5–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . 240. CHAPTER THE FIFTY SEVENTH. the 23RD General Chapter Anno, 1701. The twenty-third General Chapter was held at Douay in1701 in which Father Austin Howard was chosen President. Second elecl President, R. F Augustine Constable. The Provincial of Canterbury, R. F Bernard Gregson. The Provincial of York, R. F. Augustine Temp
RM2AM5007–Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . CORRIGENDA. Page 51, for Berkgate read Merkgate.„ 89, last line, for Rayner read Reyner.„ 122, line 11, for Cank read Cauke.„ 143, line 8, for 1624 read 1623.„ 154, line 8, for conseut read consent.„ 168, line 8, for Frier read Frere. IN THE APPENDIX. Page 4, for 1122 read 1182.„ 5, for D. John Baines read Barnes.„ „ for Ba
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