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 2 3 Abbe Mann's Account of of Douay College. Yet it was not entirely completed till many years afterwards, when Dr. Betham was put at the head of it ; and he, by the help of benefa&ions, bought a handfome houfe and garden in the Rue des Poftes, Fauxbourg St. Mar- ceau, calling it 'St. Gregory's 'Seminary, and obtaining the con- firmation thereof from the French king by letters -patent of the year 1701. This eftablifliment, like all the reft within the vof the French revolution, was deftroyed in 1793. ri. -Poor 'Clares at Graveltnes. This convent of religious women of the order of St. Francis, was creeled in the year 1603, by the endeavours of the Rev. John Gennings, a religious of the branch of the fame order called Rtcofle&t. Several colonies from this mother houfe fettled af- terwards at different places. It fubfifted till 1793, when it underwent the fate of all the other religious eftablifhments in France. 12. Beneditt'me Monks of Douay ^ This monaftery was a college belonging to the rich abbey of Be- nedictines of St. Vedaft, or Vaaft of Arras, where their young monks refided during their ftudies in the univerfity of Douay. The buildings being much greater than were neceffary for that purpofe, the abbey granted a part of them to fome Engliih monks of the fame order that were profeffed in different houfes on the Continent, on condition that they performed all the choir offices in the church of the college, in place of the monks of St. Vedaft. This ceffion was made in the year 1604 or 1-605 5 an d this monaftery afterwards became coniiderable, not =only as a convent of monks, but likewife as .a college for the education