Notes on historical matters This series comprises notes relating to a variety of historical matters, including the history of Syon Abbey, presumably compiled by or on request of the community. It includes: - Manuscript note, c 1650, concerning the date the community arrived in Lisbon, biographical details of 'my lady Barbara Wysman' [Wiseman] and 'Sister Ann Wysman [Wiseman] priores'. It also makes reference to ''Mr Trugion' [presumably Francis Tregian the Elder, Catholic English recusant, whose body was found incorrupt in 1625]; - Six files of mixed notes on the history of Syon; - Four files of mixed notes on historical matters, including the history of Syon and the Bridgettine Order; - One file of typescript notes on Syon's history in Lisbon, Portugal, including the Lisbon Earthquake; - 7-pages of typescript notes on 'Sion', from its foundation in 1415 to 1421; - 19th century manuscript notes on Father Seth Foster, Richard Whitford, and the Syon Cope; - Notebook [c 1890s-1910s] containing a variety of notes on Syon Abbey's history, written in Abbess Teresa Jocelyn's hand; - Manuscript notes on 'Sheen Isleworth' in the 16th century'; - Typescript booklet entitled, 'NOTES referring to the alien Priory of Lancaster, some time property of the Monastery of Syon' [2 copies]; - Manuscript document entitled 'Notes for Syon From Foley. Records of the English Province'; - Manuscript notes entitled, 'The Old House at Braddocks', concerning Catholics in 1586 and 1587 [possibly relating to the family history of Barbara and Anne Wiseman?]; - Manuscript notes on Archduke Francis [Franz] Ferdinand of Austria, signed '?Rusegraf O.S.B'; - Manuscript biographical notes on St Regina; - Mixed papers in a folder marked 'Miscellanea Birgittana', mainly relating to history. The papers include: a manuscript document entitled 'Return of the Nuns of St Bridget'; a manuscript document entitled 'A Page from the process of canonisacion of Lady Katherine...'; prayers and liturgical pieces; a letter from St Mary's College, Oscott, Birmingham concerning 'a portrait of a dead nun', dated 1897; manuscript notes on tombstone inscriptions at the Bridgettine Convent in Lisbon; a letter from Sister Elizabeth Hesselblad, dated 1908; manuscript notes concerning Thomas Arnold; manuscript notes concerning the destruction of the monastery in Lisbon by fire in 1651 and its reconstruction; and manuscript 'Notes on St. Bridget & her Order'; - Two seal impressions; - A tracing of 'Dame Alys de Hamton's Bell at Longfords Mill...January 1913'. c 1650-20th century