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Between 1728 and 1744 the Catholic lawyer Mannock Strickland (1673-1744) acted as agent for English nuns living on the Continent, including St Monica's, Louvain, the Brussels Dominicans and the Dunkirk Benedictines. Most convent archives perished at the French Revolution, but Strickland's papers survived in the archives of Mapledurham House, Oxfordshire, offering a unique insight into the workingsof English convents. These extraordinary documents reveal the reality of exile for a group of formidable yet vulnerable women, "doubly dead" to English law. Two hundred letters tell stories of hardship, isolation, severe winters, war, starvation, Jacobite intrigue and international finance. They show that convent bursars became skilled at playing international exchange markets yet remained at themercy of unscrupulous investors.
The letters are presented here with full notes; a thorough introduction sets the letters, cash day books, bills of exchange and other documents in context.

Richard G. Williams is Librarian and Archivist of Mapledurham House; he has also held senior posts at the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, Birkbeck College London and at Yale University.

Convents --- Cloisters (Religious communities) --- Convents and nunneries --- Nunneries --- Church property --- Religious institutions --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- History --- Strickland, Mannock, --- Sheen Anglorum (Monastery) --- Carthusians --- Kartäuser --- Kartuzijani --- Chartreux, Ordre des --- Ordre des Chartreux --- Cartuxos --- Carthusian Order --- Chartreux (Group) --- Ordo Cartusianorum --- O.C. (Ordo Cartusianorum) --- OC (Ordo Cartusianorum) --- O. Carth. --- Cartuxa --- Certosini --- Cartujanos --- Cartujanas --- Chartreuse de Nieuport (West Flanders, Belgium) --- Bruges (Belgium). --- Louvain (Belgium). --- Mechelen (Belgium). --- Nieuwpoort (West Flanders, Belgium). --- Nieuport (Monastery : West Flanders, Belgium) --- Sheen Charterhouse (Richmond upon Thames, London, England) --- Catholics, English --- Monastic and religious life of women --- Monastic life --- Spiritual life --- English Catholics --- Christianity --- Catholicism. --- Christianity. --- English convents. --- English power. --- French Revolution. --- convent. --- effects of war. --- eighteenth century. --- marginalization. --- nuns. --- religious persecution. --- religious scholarship. --- religious studies. --- salvation.