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306 time the community being transferred to their third prison, which was at the English Austin nuns, Rue des Fossés St. Victor in Paris, Mr. Nailor took lodgings in the seminary belonging to the Eudistes in Rue des Postes, which was then in the possession of the nation. But a lay brother hired it and let it out to priests and chosen lodgers, through which they had the means of having Mass, which he said daily until a few days before his death.

He came to the Fossés several times to see the community before he fell sick, and they were permitted to speak to him, the first time since their separation, through an iron grate in the street door in presence of the guard. But as the Rev. Mother Prioress was confined to her bed and could not walk, they obtained permission from the keeper that Mr. Nailor might be conducted by the keeper's wife into the community's apartments, and he made a short and farewell visit to them all. He returned home, and died on the 16th of January 1795.

To return to the before-named period, November 1793, when the community were placed under arrest in their own convent, Rue du Champ de l'Alouette.

The house began to be crowded with prisoners of both sexes, consisting chiefly of nobility—a German prince and his brother, a princess who, taken from the convent in the night with twelve or thirteen other prisoners to the prison of St. Pélagie, and in a few days were put to death. The Duke and Duchess de ——— were confined with her in the convent, and attended her till she was carried away. Their sister, the Countess d'Albane, also was detained, with their daughter, the Duchess de Montmorency, with their child and attendant. In short, their number increased so rapidly that the keeper called for all the rooms, in which he placed the prisoners according to their rank.