A: Princethorpe, near Rugby, is a large convent fans which came from France in 1792. They wire thus the first to enter England. Founded from the men abbey of Montmartre, the community had bez nace 103 at Montargis. When the troubles inst began in France, they came over thirty-four in beat and landed at Shoreham. harter, the wife of the prince regent, had a relation Mrs. Fitzin the community, and interested the prince on their beball and he received them very kindly. After A few days at Brighton, the community went to Folner Hall in Norfolk; then, in 1811, to Heath Hi Wakefeld; and ten years after to Orrell Mount, Wan They brought their wanderings to an end by settling a: Princethorpe in 1855. Here they have erected large buildings, and have a flourishing and well-known school. The community, though of French origin, is now almost exclusively English. There is also a monastery of Belgian benedictines in the Isle of Wight. They came from Liège, August 18, 1882, seven in number, and began choir that same day. In 1830 the nuns added to their house a chapel and other monastic buildings, and kept on their original dwelling as a school for young ladies. The community now numbers twelve. The mother house of this convent is the abbey "de la Paix" at Liège, which was founded from Namur in 1627. A small monastery of nuns has been founded The community numbered thirty-eight, but three English sisters and a lay sister had come over some weeks previously. at Tenby, and another at St. Mildred's Minster. These last, while keeping choir, do not profess the strict enclosure, in order to devote themselves more readily to active works. This return to the historic aspect of benedictine life is full of promise and interest.1 All these convents of women are denizen houses. Of the monasteries of men, the chief is that of Ramsgate, belonging to the new congregation of Cassinese of the Primitive Observance, founded by the abbat Casaretto in 1844. St. Augustine's monastery was founded in 1861 by Dr. Luck, whose sons all became priests, and who followed their example before his death. The church itself is the foundation of the famous Pugin, who built it entirely at his own cost. The convent, now almost entirely English, has a flourishing college attached to the monastery, which has been recently erected into an abbey. The recent persecutions in France drew over some benedictine monks of Père Mouard's congregation, now the French province of the Cassinese of the Primitive Observance. They have settled at the old cistercian abbey of Buckfast in Devonshire, which they have restored as a house of God. A small community of German monks of the Prussian congregation of Beuron, expelled from their home in Swabia, settled at Erdington through the charitable kindness of the late reverend Henry Haigh. 1 In Rome, under lady abbess Pynsent, is a flourishing monastery of English benedictines with the modified enclosure. He had built a beautiful church and endowed it, and when in his old age he bethought himself of retiring to Oscott, he was induced to let them have his foundation. They came in 1876. At a later date they built a small monastery, which has been recently enlarged, and has been created an abbey. To this they have also attached an alumnate for youths desirous of joining their institute. A foundation of French monks of the congregation of Solesmes has been recently added to the list of alien houses. They are stationed at Farnborough in Hants, and have the custody of the tombs of the late emperor and prince imperial. This account of St. Benedict's patrimony in England cannot close without casting a wistful glance at other bodies of earnest souls outside who are striving after light, and seeking salvation under the patronage of the Holy Patriarch. May they too be brought in to join the great chorus of monastic praise which now goes up daily from so many English lips before the throne of God! INDEX A ABBAT, deposition of, i. 45; leave ACTON BURNELL, chapter at, ii. 185; 349 ALIEN PRIORIES, their origin, i. 129; ALLANSON, D., ii. 275 ALLEN, CARDINAL, i. 230; and Par- ALMONER, duties of, i. 291 215 AMPLEFORTH, ii. 272; buildings at, ANGLICAN BISHOPS, persecuting APPELLANTS, cause of, i. 252; go to ARCH-PRIEST, appointment of, i. ARRAS, college of, at Paris, ii. 68; B BACON, FRANCIS, ii. 110, note BALDWIN, FR., S.J., intrigues at BALTIMORE, LORD, and the oath, ii. 154 BANCROFT, ARCHBISHOP, ii. 105. BARBO, ABBAT, i. 140 BARKING NUNNERY, i. 103, 106 BARNES, D. JOHN, ii. 164, 300 BEDE, VENERABLE, i. 8, 100 Birket, George, ii. 109 BISHOPS, relation to cathedral mon- |