Text Appearing Before Image: 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
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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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