Englifli Convents, &c. on the Continent. 261 ment of the Englifh Jcfuits till their fuppreffion in France, on which occafion thofe who occupied it removed to Bruges in Flanders, where they inftituted a greater and a leiTcr col- lege ; the nrft of which ceafed on the extinction of the Society in 1773, and the other fooii afterwards came to nothing un- der fome Englifh dominicans, who had been put into it by the government of the Low. Countries. The great college at St. Omer's, in the year 1 764, was put into the hands of the Eng- lifh clergy of Douay, in the quality of a royal college, and it remained fo till it was annihilated by the all-devouring French revolution in 1793. 9. Benedittme Nuns at Bruffels. This was the firft new convent erected on the Continent by reli- gious perfons of the Englifli nation. It took place in the year 1598, by the zeal and induftry of lady Mary Berkely, who was firft abbefs of it, and of lady Mary Percy, a Benedictine, nun. Befides their regular duties as religious, they were occupied in .the education of young ladies. On the approach.of the French to Bruflels, in June 1794, thefe religious ladies fled, out of the Low Countries. 10. Englt/h Seminary m Paris. This feminary was begun about the year 1600, being intended not only for taking degrees in< the univerfity of Paris, but alfb- for maintaining a number of learned men, who were to be em- ployed in writing books of controversy, in oppofition to a like defign of Dr. SuttclifTe in founding Chelfea college. But this- eftablifhment was feveral times interrupted, and the members difperfed, until the year 1667, when the foundation was con- fiderably augmented by a Mr. Carr, alias Pickney, a member o
