Pièce 2025-05-07/2077 - Abstinence and living situation dispensation

One A4, hand written

To the Rev. Mother of the Sisters of St. Clare, Galway.
Permission to live with relatives and friends
through the miserys of the tymes' In case of necessity
they can eat meat. Signed: Fr. Edmund Delaney, Min.Prov.

TEXT

In 1690, the Minister Provincial, Fr. Eduard Delaney, gave the
following permission to the Poor Clares in Galway:
"To the Reverend Mother and Sisters of St. Clare, Galway"
whereas the Rev. Mothers and Sisters of St. Clares's Order of the
Convent of Galway have made known to me that through the miseries
of the times they are reduced to such extremity that they cannot
subsist together in cloister and thereupon desire my leavs to
disperse among relations and friends, these are therefore to permit
and licence the said religious Mothers and Sisters to dwell with
their said friends and relations where they may be better provided
for, hereby charginq them their consciences to live mere as near
their Rule and Constitutions as they conveniently can, and also
declaring that in case of necessity they may eat meat.
Given under my hand and seal, 25th August, 1690
Fr. Edmund Delaney
Minister Provincial.