Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . ST. I65 very title. I have nothing more to add of the author besideswhat I gather from the epitaph on his grave in front of altar in the English monastery of St. Gregory atDouay ; it is as follows: Here lies the body of Sir Herbert Croft, Knight, born in Eng-land in the County of Hereford, a prudent, able and h
Chronological notes [electronic resource]: containing the rise, growth and present state of the English congregation of the Order of StBenedict drawn from the archives of the houses of the said congregation at Douay in Flanders, Dieulwart in Lorraine, Paris in France, and . ST. I65 very title. I have nothing more to add of the author besideswhat I gather from the epitaph on his grave in front of altar in the English monastery of St. Gregory atDouay ; it is as follows: Here lies the body of Sir Herbert Croft, Knight, born in Eng-land in the County of Hereford, a prudent, able and high souledman, and a great lover of his Countrys freedom who devoutlyspent several years in a poor cell in this monastery, and here died;imitating herein the example of his ancestor Sir Bernard Croftwho six hundred years before had abandoned the renown of mili-tary fame to die a monk in a Benedictine monastery. He diedon the 10th of April, 1622. May he rest in peace. And at St. Malos died the RR. Fathers Celestine, otherwiseJohn Tremby, and Rupert Guillet, a Breton, at the plague housewhere their great charity had placed them to assist the infefted.(25th. and 28th. Ocfober, 1629). But before their exit the fourth General Chapter was heldat Douay on the 2nd. of i66
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