Description | Comprising:
- two c 19th century pages concerning biographical details of 17th-century sisters [presumably of the Augustinian community in Louvain], including Sister Bridget Wiseman, Sister Mary Wiseman, Mother Magdalen Throckmorton, ? Roper, Mother Winifred Thimelby, and Sister Elizabeth Clifford;
- one notebook entitled 'List of Clergy Converts to the Catholic Church' and one notebook entitled 'List of Clergy Converts In the Church No 2';
- four-page typescript document (2 copies) entitled 'Official Account of the Death of the Rht. Rev. The Ab. Buckfast Dom Anscar Vonier O.S.S.' by Benedict Hanff O.S.B. Infirmarion (c 1938);
- document noting biographical details of two sisters [presumably of St Dominic's Priory], Mother Mary Teresa Dobson and Mother Mary Rose Parker;
- a manuscript document entitled 'Account of the festivities held at Stanbrook Abbey in honour of the three-hundredth anniversary of its foundation', presumably copied from the Chronicles of Stanbrook Abbey, c 1925;
- a 6 page manuscript history of a Cistercian community's [presumably of Stapehill Abbey in Dorset, now Holy Cross Abbey in Whitland] 'wanderings in exile' between 1791 and c 1802;
- a manuscript transcript of a biography of Gilbert Bourne, Bishop of Bath and Wells, taken 'from the Dictionary of National Biography';
- a typescript report entitled 'The Opening of the New Church at Talacre Abbey. Feb. 11th. 1938';
- manuscript notes entitled, 'History of the old man Achard, novice-master at Clairvaux', compiled by Sister Mary Stanislaus of Syon Abbey;
- a file of notes on St Peter Canisius;
- a notebook containing manuscript notes on Mr [Karl] Karlén [author unknown], a Swedish priest;
- and a notebook entitled 'The English Benedictines of Ghent now at St Mary's Abbey, Oulton in Staffordshire, containing a manuscript list and biorgraphical details of sisters who professed between 1605 and 1901. |