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The English monastic experience, 15th-21st centuries

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Images from the Syon Abbey archive

Hard times in Rouen

  • Copy Petition

Recruitment

  • Profession papers
  • Two letters from Charles Middlehurst, Wigan
  • Letter from Ellen Gillow concerning admission to Lisbon

Spiritual direction

  • St Augustine’s Rule (copy made 1660)
  • Visitation
  • Letter from Apostolic collector
  • Appointment of confessors
  • Letter declining position as chaplain to Syon

Fire and earthquake

  • Letter from the Abbess re fire
  • Account of Earthquake in Lisbon – Sister Kitty Witham
  • Livro dos Rendimentos … (1768)

Spirituality

  • A Collection of Small Prayers…for the Use of Sister Kitty Witham
  • Stations of the Cross, Kitty Witham’s copy
  • Account of Sister Angela and Great Plague

Leaving Lisbon

  • Two letters – Return to England, 1861 (from Lisbon various c17th)

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Header: detail from the Book of Hours in the Syon Abbey Medieval Manuscript Collection, kept at the Special Collections, University of Exeter (EUL MS 262/2).

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