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Mary Percy, in religion Mary.
Born: 1570.
Died: 13 Sep 1642 in Brussels, aged 72.
father: Lord Thomas Percy 7th earl of Northd of Alnwick Castle, Northd
mother: Lady Anne Somerset of Raglan Castle, Monmths
Benedictines, Brussels choir nun.
She was clothed 21 Nov 1599.
She professed 21 Nov 1600, aged 31. Her dowry was 5000 fl.
Abbess 1616 - 1642creator: Innocency Justified and Insolency Repressed, BL Harleian 4275
subject: image on tombstone at Bergholt
translator: Abridgement of Christian Perfection, Isabella Berinzaga
dedicatee: La Lutte Spirituelle, trans Carre, 1632
dedicatee: Six spiritual books: No 5 the Jesus Psalter, 1618
dedicatee: Life of the holy and venerable mother Suor Maria Maddalena de Patsi, trans GB, 1619
dedicatee: The Paradise of the Soule, trans Everard Thomas, 1617
Sources: AMbenbx-3: 1616; Brussels Obit: 34-8; AMbenbx-7: 1600; Brussels Benedictine Annals: 15, 97-151; Brussels Benedictines Profession Book: 175-6.
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Notes:
Her father was martyred at York in 1572. From 1570 her mother lived in exile, dying in Oct 1596: annals 17-18.
MS Harleian 4275 1632 in response to the pro-Jesuit faction in her convent. See Seguin 1997 thesis p305.