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Barbara Constable, in religion Barbara.
Born: 1617 in Yorks.
Died: 26 Jan 1684 in Cambrai.
father: Sir Philip Constable 1st bart of Everingham, Yorks
mother: Anne Roper of Eltham, Kent
Benedictines, Cambrai choir nun.
She entered 31 Aug 1638.
She professed 1640, aged 23.
creator: MS Gemitus Peccatorum or the Complaints of Sinners... 1649
creator: MS Advises For Confessors & Spirituall Directors... 1650
creator: MS Speculum Superiorum, Composed of diverse Collections... 1650
creator: MS Considerations for Preests... 1653
creator: MS Considerations or Reflexions upon the Rule... 1655
creator: MS A spirituall Incense Composed of divers exercises of prayer... 1657
creator: MS The Second part prosecuting the Excellency of M: Prayer... 1657
creator: MS A Spiritual Treatise, conteininge some advise for seculars... 1663
translator: MS A Little Instruction to Teach a Secular Woman How one should Live... 1666
translator: MS This Booke consists of Masses for some principall festivities of the yeare... 1668
She was the cousin of Margaret Roper, Mary Roper, Mary Roper, Elizabeth Roper.
Sources: Cambrai crs: 44; Wolfe: Dame Barbara Constable.
Family tree (Constable of Everingham)Family tree (Roper, barons Teynham)
Notes:
Wolfe (2007) has listed eleven original works written and compiled; transcriptions of twenty five spiritual works as well as maintaining her community's register of letters and instructions and emending scribal copies of contemplative treatises: see p158. The list given above does not include compilations and copies: for these see Wolfe