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 Englifh. Convents, &c. on t'hc Continent. 373 it came into the hands of the Englifh congregation of St. Be- nedict, to which it belongs. 41. Canoneffcs of tJie Holy Sepulchre, in Liege. Thefc religious ladies flourifhed greatly under the direction af the late Jefuits, as alfo in the education of young perfons of their own fex. The French invafion put an end to them in 1794. 42, 43, 44. Carmelites, or Tere/ian Nuns at Antwerp, Lier, and Hoogftrtzte. The nuns of thefe three convents were entirely given up to a contemplative life. In 1789 a part of them went over to Maryland, to make a new eftablifhment of their order ; Che reft fled from the French invafion in 1794. Thefe, as far as I was ever able to learn, are all the Englifh re- ligious -eftablifh merits that have been made on the Continent of Europe fmce the beginning of the reign of queen Elizabeth. Of all this number, I believe, there only now remain the three colleges of fecular clergy at Rome, Valladolid, and Lifbon, the Benedictine abbey of Lamfpring in Germany, with the nuns of Lifbon and Munich. A more extenfive account of the foundation of many of thefe houfes, and of the perfons who cftablifhed them, may be had in Dodo's Church Hijlory of England, printed at BnnTels in 1737, 3 vols. in folio ; in the Flandr'ia llhiflrata of Sander us, 3 vols. in fol. the Brabantia Illuflrata, 3 vols. in folio ; and other fuch hiftories of the countries where any of thefe eftablifhments were made. What I have faid above of the origin, nature, and prefent fate of each, fuffices for the end I propofed to myfelf in this fhort account of them. VoL.XI.II. Nn XXV. Ex-