A large collection of Lay Estate Records, the property of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, New Hall, Essex

Item date: 1341-1791
Grant Value: 150
Item cost pre-decimal: Not recorded
Item date acquired: 1950
Item institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

English nuns who took over estates in Belgium, fled from thence at the time of the French Revolution. This is a comprehensive set of their estate records 8 14th century volumes, 16 from 15th century, 69 16th century, 36 17th century, 8 18th century to 1791