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Fire and earthquake

Letter from Abbess requesting help in rebuilding convent following its destruction by fire (1662)

EUL MS 389/3230

Account of Lisbon earthquake (1755) – letter of Sister Kitty Witham

EUL MS 389/1812

Livro dos rendimentos (account book), excerpts (1768)

EUL MS 389 [recently acquired]

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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