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Elizabeth Browne, in religion Pelagia.
Born: 1686.
Died: 1 Oct 1745 in Pontoise, aged 59.
Left Bellefonds, Rouen in 1721, when convent reduced to extreme poverty.
father: Lord Henry Browne 5th viscount Montagu of Cowdray, Sussex
mother: Barbara Walsingham of Little Chesterford, Essex
Augustinians, Bruges choir nun.
She arrived 8 Jul 1721.
She left 9 Jul 1723 .
It was thought best for her to join a convent of her own order
Benedictines, Brussels choir nun.
She arrived Jul 1723.
She left Jul 1724 .
Benedictines, Pontoise choir nun.
She arrived Oct 1724.
She professed 1707.[as a choir nun at Bellefonds, Rouen]
She was the kinswoman of Lucy Herbert.She was the aunt of Dorothy Salvin.
She was the great niece of Brigit Browne, Lucy Browne.
Sources: Pontoise ob 68H4: 163; VO 68H10; Bruges Annals I: 384-5, 392, 401-2, 405.
Family tree (Browne Lords Montaigu)Notes:
Permission to transfer: image 1P 185 in Pontoise [PM]
Following her family obtaining leave from the Archbishop of Rouen that she may leave the impoverished Bellefonds convent, she desired to live under the obedience of her relation, the Reverend Mother of the Bruges Augustinians, which was granted. Thus, she was given a cell in the dormitory. There was a distant kinship link through her grandmother, Elizabeth Somerset, but closer through her uncle, Francis Browne, 4th visc Montague, who married Mary Herbert, sister of the reverend mother, Lucy Herbert.
She secured her niece, Dorothy Salvin, as a pupil for the Bruges Augustinians when she visited on 9 Oct 1721.
On 13 July 1724, she again returned to the Bruges Augustinians, this time because of her weak constitution and the Brussels Benedictines' refusal to allow her to have a fire. Lucy Herbert secured permission for her to stay for six weeks while she got permission from her brother to return to her convent at Rouen, where she had been invited to return as abbess. Nevertheless, she turned the opportunity down. Her brother, Lord Montague, also wanted her to remain in an English convent rather than a French one and secured from the Archbishop of Rouen that she could go to the Pontoise Benedictines, to which she agreed. She left on 30 Sep 1724, attended by Sister Margaret Linny.