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Mannock Strickland (1683-1744): Agent to English Convents in Flanders. Letters and Accounts from Exile

Mannock Strickland (1683-1744): Agent to English Convents in Flanders. Letters and Accounts from Exile

Williams, Richard G.

Hardcover

Series: Catholic Record Society: Records, Book 86

Biographies GeneralGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0902832301
ISBN13: 9780902832305
Publisher: Catholic Record Soc
Published: Nov 17 2016
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
An invaluable collection of primary sources for the study of eighteenth-century convent life.

Between 1728 and 1744 the Catholic lawyer Mannock Strickland (1673-1744) acted as agent for English nuns living on the Continent, including St Monica's, Louvain, the Brussels Dominicans and the Dunkirk Benedictines. 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 reality of exile for a group of formidable yet vulnerable women, doubly dead to English law. Two hundred letters tell stories of hardship, isolation, severe winters, war, starvation, Jacobite intrigue and international finance. They show that convent bursars became skilled at playing international exchange markets yet remained at the mercy of unscrupulous investors.

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