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Profession of Sr. Catherine of St. Francis Browne.
Fr. Patrick Plunkett (Guardian, Athlone)

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I the undersigned, authorized for this by the Most Rev. Thomas bishop of the diocese of Meath, have examined Sister Catherine of St Francis, otherwise Browne, concerning all conditions required by the Council of Trent, whom I found fitted and suitable to make profession among the sisters of St Clare Bethlehem.
Given at Bethlehem 29 January 1631
Fr. Patrick Plunkett
Guardian of Athlone

Ego infrascriptus ad hoc legitimitatus a Reverendissimo Domino Thoma diocesis episcopo medensi examinavi sororem catherinam a Sto francisco, alias Browne de conibus conditionibus requisitis a concilio Tri., quam repperi aptam et idoneam ad emittendam professionem inter sorores Stae Clarae Bethleem. Datum Bethleem 29 Ja. 1631.
Fr. Patricius Plunkett
Guardianus Athloniensis

Catherine Francis

Letter from the Provincial, Fr. Antony Geoghan to Mother
Gabriel [Martin] about receiving the two daughters of
Edmond Skerritt -discussing their portions.

Permission for the sisters to leave the monastery when
danger or disease or enemy approach the city of Galway.
Signed by two Provincials: Fr. Thomas Mckiernan,
Fr. Francis Sullivan.

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Since the Reverend Mother Abbess of the Poor Clares of the Convent of Galway has humbly sought permission, so that she may arrange for the Sisters of the aforesaid Convent, when danger of disease or enemy approaches the City of Galway: wherefore, in order to quieten the consciences of the said Sisters, we grant her the faculty that, whenever a danger so threatens, and there is no easy access to us, to make arrangements for them in the safest way and manner possible, according to the consent and discretion of the Father Confessor, both there and elsewhere, with our blessing. Given in our Convent of Rosserrily this day 27 June 1650.

By tenor of these letters
I confirm the aforesaid permission
Given 6 September 1650
Fr. Francis O’Sullivan
Minister Provincial

Fr. Thomas Makieman
Mr. Proalis

Cum a nobis humiliter petierit Rda. Mater Abbatissae Clarissarum Conventus Galviensis licentiam, ut approximante pestis aut hostis periculo Civitati Galviensi posnit de praefati Conventus Sororibus disponere: Hinc est quod eidem ad serenandas dictarum Sororum conscientias facultatem facimus et quotiescumque ita immineret periculum, ut ad nos facilis non daretur accessus possit de dictis sororibus quo potuerit vita, et modo, iuxta consensum, et discretionem Patris Confessarii tam ibi, quam alibi cum nostra benedictione disponere. Datum in Conventu nostro de Rosriola hac die 27 Junii 1650.

Praefatam licentiam ego
tenore praesentium confirmo
Datum 6 Septembris 1650
fr. Franciscus Sullevanus
Min. Provincialis

fr. Thomas Makieman
Mr. Proalis

Letter from Fr. Anthony O'Kelly, Minister Provincial,to Mother Mary Gabriel Skerrett, Abbess of the Poor Clares of Galway giving the faculty of "betaking yourselves to some catholic region."

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Fr. Antonius O Relly Ord. Min. Strictioris Observantiae S.T.L. necnon Almae Pro-
vinciae Hyberniae Minister Provincialis et servus, Revdae Dominae Mariae Cabrieli
Skerrett Pauperum Clarissarum Galviensium Abbatissae eiusque Monialibus professis
et Novitiis, Salutem.
Quandoquidem permittente supremo Numine huic praesenti Gubernio visum fuerit expedire
omnes Moniales e regno isto ante proximas Calendas Mayas in exilium religare sub gra-
vissimis paenis tum his tum harum
ubs tentationibus
agtE quibus omnium bonorum jactura et con-
fiscatio decreta et sancita est, si vel intra vel extra domus suas eas manutenuerint.
Hinc est quod vobis literas nostras obedientiales concedamus, facultatem impertientes,
quatenus Ia oblata transfretandi opportunitate, ad regionem aliquam catholicam vos
conferatis, commendatae Reverendis Admodum Patribus Ministris Provincialibus istarum
respective Provinciarum ad quas perveneritis, et Abbatissis Monasteriorum ad quae
diverteritis, ut vobis de loco residentiae, ubi Deo et Ordini vestro famulari valeatis
charitative providere dignentur.Omnibus interim christifidelibus, sive de populo
sive de Claro, ad quos diverteritis, tanquam pauperes et exules filias charius in
Domino commendamus. Dat. in loco nostri refugii hac die
fr. Antonius O Kel ly
Mr Proalis
De mandato
R. adm. Plis Sup.
Fr. Patricius Fahy S.T.L.
et Provinciae secretarius

Fr. Anthony O Kelly of the Order of Friars Minor of Stricter Observance, S.T.L. and
Minister Provincial of the beloved Province of Ireland and Servant, to the Rev. lady
Mary Gabriel Skerrett, abbess of the Poor Clares of Galway and to her professed
nuns and novices, greetings.
Since, by permission of the most high God, the present Government has judged it ex-
pedient to send into exile from this kingdom all nuns, before the next Calends of May,
under gravest penalties bothnon them and on those who support them, whereby the l0SS
and confiscation of all goods has been decreed and sanctioned, if they maintain them
either within or outside their houses. Hence we grant you our letters of obedience,
imparting the faculty of betaking yourselves to some catholic region, on the first
available opportunity of travellinq, commending you to the Very Reverend Father Min-
isters Provincial of these respective Provinces which you reach, and to the Abbesses
of the Monasteries which you turn to, so that they may charitably provide for a place
of residence for you, where you may be able to serve God and your Order. Meanwhile
we commend you to all the faithful, vhether lay folk or cleroy, to whom you turn,
as poor exiled daughters, lovingly in the Lord.
Given in our place of refuge this day
Fr. Anthony o xel ly
Minister Provincial
By mandate of
Very Rev. Paovincial Superior
Fr. Patrick Fahy, S.T.L.
and Secretary of the Province

Letter to Mother Mary Gabriel "Instituted you Praeses after yr tyme". Signed: Fr. Ant.O'Kelly, Minister Provincial Louvain.

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J. M. F.
Louvaine July ye 12th 99
Dearly beloved Sister
I had yrs of the 5th of may before me here, with yr unckle (?) Martin, for I was out
of towne for six weeks, wherein I find you did not receive myne then, but I hope you
received it ere now, for I directed it to my --- (?) Ambrose Ruisse. I instituted you
then Praeses after yr tyme, as I doe now by these presents, and doe desire, nay doe
command by vertue of wholsome obedience, if necessary, that none, subject to us, shal-
presume to give you ye least contradiction in this our will, and if any may attempt
the contrary she, or they, may repent, and this very soone. My cordial respect and
blessing to all that dr (- dear) family, and I desire the continuance of theire holy
prayers. My cordial wishes alsoe to dr (-dear) Mr Jerome and dr (-dear) Mr Skerrett
with the rest of theire bretheren, not forgetting my dr (- dear) Mr Philippin with the
rest of his family. I hope those who were yr friends and kinde to you, whether protes-
tants or Roman Catholicks, shall not repent it, of this you may be sure, and soone too
My cordial wishes alsoe to all frends both in towne and Country. I hope to see them
once more, interim yr unckle is very well and salutes you all, as doth alsoe, kissing
you all with this seraul most tenderly.
Sr. and R. Mother.
Yrs sincerely,
Fr. Ant. O Kel ly
Mr Proall
P.S. Bonny is with me here now and salutes you all most kindely, as doth the rest of
frends that came with me, who are all well.
LETTER ADDRESSED TO:
To
Mrs. Mary Gabriel neere Mr. Ambrose Ruisse ye Apothecary's house
in Galway, or in her absence to Mr. Jerome Martin in ye same lodging
iin Ireland 8c.
Shepe St
Galway.
par Londre

Bethlehem: Licence to found in Galway.
Fr. Antonius Geoghan, Minister Provincial.

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Fr. Anthony Geoghegan, Minister Provincial of the Province of Ireland of the Order of Friars Minor of Stricter Observance, to our venerable Mother in Christ Mary Gabriel otherwise Martin, professed nun of the Order of St Clare and Abbess elect for the convent to be erected of the Poor Clares in Galway, and to the other sisters, namely Clare Anthony, Margaret Francis, Catharine Bernard, Mary Bonaventure, Catharine Francis, Catharine Thomas, Catharine Michael, Helen Louis, Catharine Chrysostom, Lucy Clare, Mary Andrew. To the Novices also, Sabina Byrne and Mary Kelly, everlasting greetings in the Lord, etc.

Since on the part of our many special friends and benefactors, it has often and earnestly been proposed to us and humbly to you, view of the disturbance of these times, we should grant you permission to go to Galway, and there initiate and erect a convent, in the first place for God’s glory and your welfare and consolation, and the propagation of your Order and the sanctification of neighbours. Having considered these matters maturely from every angle, yielding to their devout wishes, by tenor of these present letters we grant and bless the said permission to you. Commanding you in virtue of the obedience you bequeath yourselves at the first opportunity, proceeding obediently and religiously, to the edification of all who meet you, so that in what we praise in his handiwork, and may most mercifully grant you the grace of the God who inspired you, to whom we propose you may efficaciously recommend us, and all of us in your holy prayers.

Given at Bethlehem on the thirtieth day of January 1642.

Fr. Anthony McGeoghegan
Minister Provincial

fr. Antonius Geogheganus Ordinis Minorum strictioris observantiae Provinciae Hiberniae Minister Provincialis venerandae nobis in Christo Matri Mariae Gabriellis alias Martin, moniali professae Ordinis reformat. Sanctae Clarae nec non Abbatissae electae pro Conventu Clarissarum Galviae erigendo et ceteris sororibus, viz. Clarae Antoniae, Margaritae Francisci, Catharinae Bernardi, Mariae Bonaventurae, Catharinae Francisci, Catharinae Thomae, Catharinae Michaelis, Everlinae Ludovici, Catharinae Chrysostomi, Luciaae Clarae, Mariae Andreae. Novitiis vero Sabinae Byrne, et Mariae Kelly, eas concomitantibus salutem in Domino sempiternam, etc.

Cum ex parte multorum (?) specialium nostrorum et benefactorum saepius et sedulo nobis propositum fuit, et tuo semel iterumque, tum ob vexationem habitatualium (?) huius urbis Galviae, tum pro supplicum quatum quietem, ibidem a Dei in primis gloriam, vestrorum aedificationem, consolationem, Ordinis vestri et sanctae Clarae propagationem conventus aedificatione, conventum inchoandi et erigendi. Ea mature ex intimis votis annuentes, tenore praesentium dictam licentiam concedimus et benedicimus. Quod nostra benedictio una cum omnibus quibus obviam fueritis aedificatione, ut Deus lucidae in ancillis suis, et suam largam benedictionem vobis clementissime impertiatur, ut quod fideliter intentis efficaciter obtineamus ipsius gratia(i?) sumus per vos nobis orate. Datum Bethlem die trigesimo Januarii 1642.

Antonius (?)
fr. Antonius Geogheganus
Minister Provincialis

Copy of letter in St. Isidore's Archives, Rome, written presumably by Mother Cecily Dillon.

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Je(su)s M(a)r(i)a
/27th Dec./ 1642

Loving Cosen,

... (dis)tress of these distempered times is such as ministreth a sufficient subject for these I addresse unto Y[our] Reverence, to (s)hew you the state wherunto yr poore sisters of Bethleem are reduced, and w[ho] (in ye grief I had the chiefe charge in the beginning of these wars and continue still in the sadd obligation unto my Sweet God, whereof I am made uncapable to disch[ar]g my duty, any other way then (= than) to resyne my self unto the divine permission gave way to separate our comynitie into several places to seek for some refuge under the wings of God’s mercy (in our charact[er] as all doe for God sake adure this harbour), being upon the seasid out of our cruell enemies now in our guards of their time, which are dispersed into several places, where some few of us have betaken them selves to Ballimore of this countie where liue half a dozen of us, with a number of seaven to be heard with Sir Lucas Dillon, six at Sir Ulick Burkes, four in the countie of Westmeath with the kings countis with my cosen Terence Coughlan, which three I hope begett compassion in yr (Reveren)ce towards such a number of distressed poore creatures, who are by the dispersion, and dissolution, of the whole Kingdome of the like livelihood stood noe soe disappointed as under God, whose care upon wh[om] tune our last rec[ourse?] for price of a habit in our need, wherefore seeing it hath pleased God to make yr (Reveren)ce an instrument for doeing yr country and friends many favours, in there necessitie, I hope you will be mindful of yr poore sisters whose extermitie in our degree is not in the rest of our country, and yet I hope deare __ my parte, if I had not betaken my self to the ser(vice of God), to exaime in time of need presume upon yr f(avou?) they might be wanting, and much more now (= then?) expired without some release of favour for my deare sisters, with whom for (?) yr R(everen)ce is spirituall and corporall happines leaving this my sute un(der) (con)sideration I will remane

...company which we sent there
to inhabit, and this last,
Easter (?)

Yr R(everen)ce is poore assured
Sister ———

Copy of letter-Fr. Provincial, John Baptist O'Donnell-
re money in trust for Ffrances Luttrell, £10,to be paid
to ye community of Galway.
Anne Fitzgerald "whom I have ordered to reside and live with the nuns of Galway". Signatures of several Friars overleaf. (Refer to docs.1710 & 1714)

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Whereas there was latly a Debt Recovred from ye Right hon.ble Allexander Earle of
Antrim due unto Patrick Darcy Esgre and whereas ye said Patrick was at ye time of
his Death indebted unto one Alderman Kennedy late of ye Citty of Dublin deceased
in a certain sume of mony in trust for one ffrances Luttrell a Profest Nunne of
ye Convent of Bethlem and whereas ye said Patrick ordered this said Debt due to ye
said ffrancis Luttrell should be payed out of ye said Earle of antrims debt, and
where-as there is a contention between ye Nunns of ye Communities of Bethlem and
Gallway tuching and concearning ye said debt due to ye said ffrancis Luttrell each
of ye said Communities pretending to that reight of the said debt belongs to them,
and whereas also there are but two of ye Nunns of Bethlem now in ye kingdom who
live disperst and doe not keep together, and ye rest of them in parts beyond ye seas
and that ye Nunns of callway keeps together in ye towne of Gallway and live there
Religiously in a Community according to theire order and deeminq it inconvenient
att present to decide ye said difference or ye Right of ye said debt and whereas
likewise there is yearly interest ariseing out of ye said debt and Arrears of inter-
est now due, I have therefor and doe heareby order by ye Approbation of ye Definitor
and ye other hear undernames Eclesiasticall persons and att ye consent and ye
instance of ye said Comunity of Nunns of Gallway and Anne fitz Gearald one of ye
said Nunns of Bethèlem that ten pounds be paid to ye said Comunity of Gallway of
ye said Arreares for theire present relife and towards ye mentenance of ye said Anne
fitz Garald whom I have ordered to recide and live with ye said Nunns of Gal lway
but tis heareby declared that ye payment of ye said ten poundes is not intended to
strengthen or corroborat ye said Nunns of Gallways right or debt or in ye least
preiudice or weaken ye right or claime of ye said Comunity of Bethelem, but that
hoth titles are to stand and be as at ye time and before ye payment hereof;
Given under my hand this 21 day of June Anno dni 1696
being present
fr John Bap. ta O Donell
Minister Provincialis
fr Bonra Bourke
Di ffr.
fr Ant: O Kelly Dgus de Killconnel
Er Ant: O Kelly Guardian of Mi lick
fr. Bona. ra de Burgo Guard. de kinal feken
fr. Antonius Gifford Preses Gallviensis
Copa vera
concordat cum originali quod attestor
JESUS MARIA
fr Anto: de Burgo
G. G.

An agreement between the Sisters in Galway and those founding in Lough Riagh[Loughrea]. The sisters signatures are overleaf -9. (note Mother Bonaventure's)
Signed by Fr. George Dillon and Fr. Antonius De Burgo.
No date on document but during M. Bonaventure's term of
office (1647-1650) cf. Mother Teresa Tierney's Chronicle
page 17 "within six years after they sprang up..."

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The Rd fathers father George Dillon of Galway and father Antony Booke confessor of the Poore Clares of the convent of Galway having bin by the Rd father Provinciall by full Power and Authority designed, to compound and settle all matters betwixt the community of Galway and their Deere Srs now intended for a new erection in Lough Righ, have by mutual consent of both approved their agreements being as followeth.

First that the whole stock and state of the house being examined and declared as it stands at present and that the security and writings of the portions of each of the sisters intended to quittence is delivered unto the Rd father Antony Booke confessor of the sayd convent.

Item. that the Porcions of such as came from Bethlem should stand even as they came from thence and the Porcions of such as made their Profession in Galway should be as it was given without any devision either upon those whose stayes or those that is for the new erection.

Item: that they also made an equall Devision of vestments and all other valuable goods; and each community be responsible for the debt appearing, being incurred in common and for the servis of the community. this is acknowledged and confessed by

             fr. Geo. Dillon
             fr. Antonius de Burgo

OVERLEAF

Str Mary Bonaventure                        Str Margrett Franc:
unworthy Abb of Galway                       Str Clare Antony
Str Cate Francis                           Str Mary Andrew
Str Mary Gabriel
Str Catherine Bernard
Str Catherine Michaell
Str Hellen Lodowicke

Letter to Mother Elizabeth Skeret, Mother Abbess, giving the faculty of admitting to the habit’ two well-born virgins'. Signed: Fr. Anthony De Burgo.

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By the authority granted to me by our Very Reverend Father Provincial, by these letters I grant to the Venerable virgin Elizabeth Skeert, Superioress and Mother Abbess of the convent or residence of the Galway Poor Clares, the faculty of admitting to the habit of probation two well-born virgins inspired by God to embrace the Gospel life, but under condition that they be kept and maintained perpetually within the cloister, according to the prescription of their Rule. Given at our place of refuge on this day 30 July 1683.

fr. Anthony de Burgo

Authoritate mihi commissa ab Admodum Reverendo Patre Provinciali nostro, hisce facultatem facio Venerabili Virgini Elizabethae Skeert Conventus seu residentiae Clarissarum Galviensium Praefectissae et Matri Abbatissae quatenus duas nobiles Virgines a Deo inspiratas ad vitam Evangelicam amplectendam, ad habitum probationis admittere queat ac valeat, ea tamen conditione ut intra clausuram perpetuo teneantur ac conserventur, juxta Praescriptum suae Regulae. Datum in loco nostri refugii hac die 30 Julii 1683.

fr. Antonius de Burgo