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Frances Lee, in religion Frances Benedicta.
Born: 1725 in London.
Died: 5 May 1761 in Paris, aged 37.

father: Right Hon George Henry Lee earl of Lichfield of Ditchley, Oxon
mother: Mrs Frances Hales of Canterbury, Kent

Conceptionists, Paris choir nun.
She was clothed 2 May 1743.

She professed 12 Nov 1744, aged 19. Her dowry was 13,000 livres.

Novice Mistress in 1751
Discreet in 1754
Abbess 1757 26 Apr - 1761 5 May

She was the aunt of Charlotte Clifford.
She was the great niece of Jane Hales, Anna Hales, Catherine Hales, Elizabeth Hales.
She was the kinswoman of Ann Hales.

Sources: Daumet; Conceptionist Annals: 110-11, 130, 137, 143; Conceptionist Book of the Dead: 263-4; Conceptionist BP: 248.

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Family tree (Haleslee)

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Her own title Lady Frances Lee

Margaret Mason, The Blue Nuns in Norwich 1800-1805, Recusant History, No 24, 1998-9 98