Doway.
SOme report this erected by Count Gundamor: others, more probably, by the charity of English Catholicks for recollect Fryers of the Order of S. Fran∣cis. They have a strong fancy, that Christ-Church in London, shall one day be theirs, at the next return of times. The best is, being to goe bare foot by the rules of their Order, they are well provided to wait for dead-mens shooes. Here I omit the little Cloyster of Benedictine Monks in the Dukedome of Loraine near Ponto-Mouson, as also some other Nunneries and Fryeries since erected at Paris, and elsewhere: for surely, these Orders have spauned much since our late Civil Warres, Protestant confusions multiplying Popish foundations.
2. Yet I cannot believe what one reports of two Covents in London, set up a∣bout the year 1640. One, at the Lord Gages neer Queens-street: the other, at Westminster. For, finding no person who is properly tearmed the Lord Gage, I suspect all the rest. And though I confesse Catholicks then arrived at such bold∣nesse, as rather to dare, than dread any discovery; yet it seemeth improbable any should abide there save onely to wait conveniencie of transportation. And so much for English Covents beyond the Seas, which discourse let none censure as alien, and not pertaining to the History of England. For, I would willingly be condemned for a needlesse excursion on the condition that they belonged not at all unto us who daily fetch over too much money hence, and doe mutually bring back too much mischief hither.