Introduction
Part I: Letters
Part II: Accounts
Part III: Abstracts of Bills of Exchange and Other Documents
Appendices
Williams' detailed explanations of contemporary banking and foreign
exchange practices, however, provide perhaps the most valuable
resource for a full understanding of the nuns' accounts -
explanations that will be of use to scholars more widely.
*INNES REVIEW*
For historians of the exile religious communities and scholars of
early eighteenth-century legal and economic studies, this volume is
a rich resource to be discovered and exploited from a range of
perspectives.
*JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY*
This book is a helpful primary resource for viewing the day-to-day
life of British religious after their exile.
*MAGISTRA*
Provides a perspective on the lives of those living in the Flanders
convents.which will inform scholarship on English female
monasticism for some time to come.
*DOWNSIDE REVIEW*
Will be of use to scholars interested in post-Reformation
Catholicism and the exiled religious orders, while also appealing
to those working more generally in economic, political and legal
history.
*ARCHIVES*
This book gives what must surely be the most detailed picture yet
of what was involved in keeping English Roman Catholic religious
houses on the continent afloat in the century and a half before
Catholic Emancipation.... It is a major work of scholarship, which
should bring this important archive to wider attention.
*ARCHIVES & RECORDS*
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