270 Abbe Mann's Account of $2,. Conception}/} Nuns in Paris.
- -On the breaking up of the convent of Francifcan nuns atNieu-
port in 1658, as was mentioned above, (N 21) Angela Jer- ningham and fix others of thofe nuns went to Paris, and in 1 660 they put themfelves under the rules of the order of the Conception, and along with their other religious duties edu- cated young ladies. Mr. Vivier, a French clergyman, left an eftate of about . 300 fterling a year to this convent, which fubfifted till the time of the French revolution in 1 793. 33. Dominican Friars at Bornhem in Flanders. This convent was founded in the year 1658 by the baron of Bornhem. The firft prior of it was Thomas Howard of Arun- del, afterwards cardinal Howard, to whom the eftablimment was principally owing. Thefe religious afterwards kept a con- fiderable college for the education of youth, which continued to flourifh till the time of their flight on account of the French invafion of the Low Countries in 1 794. Beiides this convent, the aforenamed cardinal Howard founded another in Rome for Englifh Dominicans ; but it was fupprefled foon afterwards, for which reafon it is not enume- rated here. Vid. Sanderi Flandria Illuftrata, Vol. III. p. 355, 236. &*& * i ' * - - 34. Dominican College in Louvain. This little eftablimment was wholly deftined for the ftudies of the young religious of Bornhem in philofophy and divinity. On that account it enjoyed the privileges of the univerfity of Lou- vain. Jt fell of courfe with the mother-houfe in 1794. 35. Poor-
