Author: WILLIAMS, RICHARD G.
Title: Mannock Strickland 1683-1744. Agent to English Convents in Flanders. Letters and Accounts from Exile.
Description: Woodbridge: Catholic Record Society / The Boydell Press, 2016. 9780902832305. 1st edition.Catholic Record Society Volume 86. "Most convent archives perished at the French Revolution, but Strickland's papers survived in the archives of Mapledurham House, Oxfordshire, offering a unique insight into the workings of English convents.These extraordinary documents reveal the rality of exile for a group of formidable yet vulnerable women, "double dead" to English law. Two hundred letters tell stories of hardship, isolation, severe winters, war, tarvation, Jacobite intrigue and international finance.." Pp.lxxxvii/341, black & white frontispiece + 5 further figure illustrations. Blue boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Keywords: Williams Mannock Strickland Agent English Convents Flanders Letters Accounts Exile St Monica's Louvain Spellikens Dominican Brussells Benedictines Dunkirk Lady Catherine Radclyffe Carthusian 49821 Monastic


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