Identifier: englishdominic00jarr (find matches)
Title: The English Dominicans
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Jarrett, Bede, 1881-1934
Subjects: Dominicans
Publisher: London : Burns, Oates and Washbourne
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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applicable exclusivelly to English mission." His letters to
Rome finally settled the matter, for though the Americans
still cherished the project, and in their friendly intercourse
with the English visited England to impress their views on the
fathers, no longer was there any further talk of compulsion,
nor were any more efforts made to claim Bornhem for America,
or as part of the personal effects of Fr. Hill or Fr. Wilson.
But this controversy and the misfortunes of the Province

¹Obituary Notices p. 26.
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DOMINICAN NOVICIATE PRIORY, WOODCHESTER
[To face p. 200

The Restoration 201

cast a gloom, settled and continuous, over the fathers. In
1823 a large house was erected at Hinckley, and a school for
a limited number of scholars established with some measure
of success; but by 1832 there were only three of the fathers
Bornhem still alive, besides two foreign Dominicans who
in 1794 had fled into England1¹ Since 1817 six had joined the
Province at Hinckley, but two of them had died. Thus the
Province was now reduced to nine priests in all; of whom five
were so aged as to be unable to take any part at all in the life
of the missions. Moreover, in order to secure even the possi-
bility of continuance, it was necessary to concentrate upon
Hinckley, so as to obtain some sort of centre in which novices
might be trained and educated. This entailed the sacrifice of
many missions, some of which had been in Dominican hands
for many years. These were now, by an act of sacrifice
whereby the future Province and not the actual was unself-
ishly considered, surrendered to the Vicars Apostolic for the
use of the secular clergy.

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