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Repository	Jesuits in Britain Archives
Ref No	ABSI/DC/NHA/MSS/2
Title	A Short account of the chief events that took place before & during the Emigration of the English College, or Academy, from Liège to Stonyhurst, A.D. 1794
Date	1828
Level	Item
Description	51 pp. It concludes: "The above Narration was collected by the Rev. J. Laurenson, S.J., at the desire of the Gentlemen at Stonyhurst, & finished by him at Brough Hall. Nov. 21. 1828. Faithfully copied at New Hall in Essex, May 6th, 1828." Engravings of the English Jesuit College, Liège, the Liège Charterhouse, the Liège Benedictine abbey, and the Liège cathedral follow. On the back cover is at 1827 engraving of the Jesuit pensionnat in Fribourg, Switzerland. Laid in the codex are letters from George Oliver, Exeter 9 and 10 September 1826, to Mrs. A. Laurenson. New Hall. Oliver provides a chronological list of rectors at Liège. Oliver begins the note with an interesting comment about the history of the province: "Unfortunately, there has been no little negligence in continuing the History of the English Province, from the time of Fr. Henry More its Historian; but a spirit of iniquisitive research is manifestly reviving, & under the directing genius of Fathers Brooke & Glover, I have a confident hope that much will be done to elucidate its Annals."

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