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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172 The English Dominicans
Roman interests at home. In the more spiritual spheres of
Catholic life they had also done no small work by preaching,
confessing, writing, lecturing, stimulating the piety of their
Christian people. Even beyond the borders of their own four
seas, missionary enterprise had fired their adventurous ambi-
tion, and driven them over the mountains of Armenia and in
the cities of Asia Minor, as again later it was to plant their
successors as pioneer bishops in North America.
Then all this glorious edifice was down-
toppled at the
Reformation. The masterful brutality of Henry, the priggish
piety of Edward, the craft and skilful strength of Elizabeth
wholly defeated, and for a time destroyed, the patient labour
of years.
On the other side we do believe that there must first have
been some failure within to have allowed such influence and
power without. But in the end, weakened within, struck at
without, the fair upbuilding of the Province, its foundation,
its adornment, it's glory was broken down, so that of it to
this day there hardly remains a stone upon a stone.
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GREAT YARMOUTH, SOUTH-WEST TOWER OF
DOMINICAN PRIORY
[To face p. 172

CHAPTER IX
THE REORGANIZATION

THE sad last days of the English Province under
Elizabeth are recorded by Father Richard Har-
grave, Prior of S. Bartholomews-in-Smithfield.
His letter to the Master-General dated 1 October
1559, details the hopes entertained of Elizabeth,
the sudden appearance of her Protestantism, the appointment
of Visitors to the monasteries and convents re-established by
Queen Mary, and the quick suppression first of religious life,
and secondly of the Catholic Faith.
The English members of the Smithfield Priory who re-
mained in England conformed, preferring in Hargrave's
phrase "to remain in England and enjoy the flesh-pots of
Egypt to being abject in the house of the Lord." The nuns
of Dartford were more steadfast. They valiantly refused to
accept the new oath and the new Church service, and toge-
ther with Father Richard and three English Dominicans, in
much poverty and with many hardships, sought asylum in
Flanders.² The aged nuns (among whom was Elizabeth

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