The chronicle of the English Augustinian canonesses regular of the Lateran, at St. Monica's in Louvain
Subtitle: (now at St. Augustine's priory, Newton Abbot, Devon)
By: edited with notes and additions.
Contributors: Augustinian Canonesses.
Publisher: Sands & Co.
Published: 1904
Place of publication: Edinburgh, Scotland
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PREFACE TO CHAPTER THE FIRST; title: Burnham Abbey, suppressed in 1539. Sister Elizabeth Woodford and the Clement family. The Carthusian martyrs and Maigaret Clement. Her vision of the martyrs round her deathbed. Other relatives of Blessed Thomas More. Queen Mary's grant, restoring their estates. St Ursula's at Louvain. First English vocations. Margaret Clement the younger. Shirleys, Rookwoods, and Allens. 1; title: CHAPTER I; title: From the arrival of Sister Elizabeth Clement at St Ursula's in Louvain to the resignation of Mother Margaret Clement, 1548-1606 24; title: PREFACE TO CHAPTER THE SECOND; title: The Chaplains of St Monica's. The Rew. John Fenn, Stephen Barnes, John Bolt; the Rev. John Redman, D.D. The Wisemans of Braddocks. The Vaughans of Courtfield 39; title: CHAPTER II From the resignation of Mother Margaret Clement to the foundation of a separate English community at St Monica's, 1606-1609 56; title: PREFACE TO CHAPTER THE THIRD; title: A Novice from Queen Elizabeth's Court The Mother of the Maids of Honour. The Copleys of Gatton. Anthony Copley. The Gages of Firle. The Throckmorton family. Catholic gaiety amid persecutions. Sister Shirley's MS. Beautiful death of Mother Margaret Clement " Let me do as the swan doth, sing you a song before my death 86; title: CHAPTER III; title: From the opening of St Monica's to the death of Mother Margaret Clement, 1609-1612 102; title: PREFACE TO CHAPTER THE FOURTH; title: A group of Catholic families under the Stuarts. Cliffords, Thimelbys, ana Astons. Sir Thomas Lucy ("Justice Shallow") and his descendants. William Blundell, "the Cavalier." The Lords Windsor of Bradenham. The Rev. John Bolt Queen Elizabeth's ChapeL Thomas, Earl of Southampton, and his sisters. The families of Pounde and Brittan 125; title: CHAPTER IV; title: From the arrival at St Monica's of the Rev. John Bolt to the death of Sister Elizabeth Dumford, 1613-1618 150; title: PREFACE TO CHAPTER THE FIFTH; title: The Stonehouse and Hansom families. Cruelty of the President of the North. Elizabeth Foster, a hitherto unknown martyr. The Syon Chronicle. The Fosters or Forsters of Yorkshire. Sir Richard Forster and the Pontoise MSS. The Lawsons of Brough. The Balthorpes. The haunted walk of Huddington House. The Winters and their fellow-conspirators. Sister Mary Winter. A place of martyrdom outside Worcester identified 165; title: CHAPTER V; title: From the profession of Sistrs Stonehouse and Lawson to that of Sister Grace Babthorpe and her grandchild, Sister Frances Babthorpe, with the history of the Babtnorpes, Brookes, and Gouldings, 1618-1621 187; title: PREFACE TO CHAPTER THE SIXTH; title: The Cloptons and Shakespeare's Country. Baron Carew of Clopton.; title: The ancient homes of the Fortescues in South Devon. Blessed Adrian Fortescue and his descendants. The Plowdens of Plowden. Edmund Plowden. The Constables of Flamborough and Everingham. The Lords Herries. Abbess Constable, O.S.B. In the Church of E veringham, 15 th February 1904 214; title: CHAPTER VI; title: From the commencement of building St Monica's Church, in 1622, to the death of Sister Susan Laybum, "the Martyr's Daughter," bringing the Chronicle to the beginning of the year 1625 237; title: Index 267; title: Pedigrees at end; title: Woodford — Clement — Tremayne — Wiseman of Braddocks — Worthington of Blainscow — Allen of Rossall — Barony of Hoo — Copley — Clopton — Giflard; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: William Howard, Viscount Stafford. Beheaded on Tower Hill, 29th December 1680 Facing title; title: The Canonical Order p. 1; title: Order of Queen Mary in Council in 1553, for Restoration of Estates to Dr Clement and William Rastell.; title: Showing Autographs of Members of the Council 11; title: Address on Queen Mary's Order for Restoration of Lands to Dr Clement and William Rastell. With Mem. (reversed) in Dr Clement's Handwriting 15; title: Mrs Worthington (Mary Allen), Mother of the Two Sisters Worthington, and Niece to Cardinal Allen. From painting in the possession of Joseph Gillow, Esq. 21; title: Letter of Ven. William Howard, Viscount Stafford.; title: Written to his Daughter, a Nun at St Monica's, after his Arrest 32; title: Letter of Ven. William Howard, Viscount Stafford.; title: Written to his Daughter, a Nun at St Monica's, the Day before his Execution 46; title: Deed in Flemish of St Ursula's, Louvain. Showing the only Copy known to exist of the Seal of that Monastery, wherein Mother Margaret Clement made her Profession, and of which she was the Prioress 57; title: Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop Of Durham 70; title: The four Sisters Tunstall, Canonesses, O.S.A. Daughters of Francis Tunstall of Wycliffe, and of Cecily Constable, daughter of John, Viscount Dunbar 86; title: Monstrance Given To St Monica's Community By Throckmorton Family, 1660. Now At St Augustine's Priory, Newton Abbot 94; title: Reliquary, containing Hair-Shirt of Blessed Thomas More. Preserved at St Augustine's Priory 102; title: Lady Margaret Radcuffe. Daughter of Francis Radcliffe, first Earl of Derwentwater, wife of Sir Philip Constable of Everingham, Bart. 110