The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.
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The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.
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Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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London :: Printed for Iohn Williams ...,
1655.
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University of Cambridge -- History.
Great Britain -- Church history.
Waltham Abbey (England) -- History.
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"The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40655.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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Bruxells Nunnerie.
THey are of the Order of S. Benedict, and yet solely under the inspection of
the Iesuits, which seems improper, seeing it would sound like truer con∣struction
that Benedictine Nunnes should be subject to Benedictine Monks.
The truth is, that at the first founding hereof the Iesuiticall activity got the start of
the Benedictine dulnesse, and these men of lasting mettall (as good at length as at
hand) keep the advantage which once they have gotten. Indeed. no Nunnes
come hither but such as are transported by the Iesuits speciall recommendation,
and therefore it is but equall they should dresse and prune the Vines of their own
planting, I assure you, the place is too costly for my Daughter to be entred there,
seeing they receive none into their Abbey and habit unlesse she have a thousand
pound or two for her Portion.
2. The Abbey is very rich, having purchased whole Manours, and Lordships in
Brabant, with many thousand of pounds at use in the Lombards and elswhere, all
which the English Iesuits doe dispose of. Father Gardiner, and FatherWalgrave
aliàs Flower were Anno 1630, their Overseers, being some sixty English Damosells
under their Abbesse, then the Sister of the (Aunt to the present) Earl of Northum∣berland.