The Irish Dames of Ypres Author:Patrick Nolan Subtitle: Being a History of the Royal Irish Abbey of Ypres Founded A.d. 1665 and Still Flourishing : and Some Account of Irish Jacobitism, With a Portrait of James Ii and Stuart Letters Hitherto Unpublished General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: Browne and Nolan Subjects: Benedictine nuns ... more » Jacobites Ieper (Belgium)xRoyal Irish Abbey Monasticism and religious orders Irish Ieper (Belgium) Ypres, Belgium History / Europe / Great Britain History / Europe / Ireland Religion / Monasticism Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 58 CHAPTER VI Abbess Beaumont's Negotiations With The Spanish Governor And The Burgesses Of Ypres And now that we have introduced our little colony of Irish Benedictine nuns into Abbess Beaumont's convent in the good city of Ypres, we must give our readers some account of the new home in which they settled down. Lady Abbess Neville does not give us any information on this point, so we must seek for details elsewhere. In the Archives of the Abbey there is preserved an extract in old Flemish, from the " Register of the Resolutions " of the " groot ghemeene Raedt der Stede van Ipre," or great Common Council of Ypres, of the xviii May, 1665, to the following effect: -- At the request of " mynheer " the Bishop to admit four English religious of " great house" (i. e. of noble family) and recommended by the King of England, into a part of the town to be designated by the " magistraet," and which was to serve them as refuge, on their undertaking not to be a burden to the town; it is resolved to meet the Rt. Rev. Bishop's wishes therein, provided they are conformable to the intentions of His Excellency the Mar...« less