Liber Conventus S. Katherine Senensis prope Edinburgum

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westoria fide of Newington Stood a monaster of uias,

callo M Sancta Catharina de Sion sis,' rom a Conveni and Cityos thos nantes in Italy, of the ordor of aint Dominich ut

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In troating of tho nuntiories in Edinburgh, M Chaliners in his elaboratu orkintillod Caledonia V observes, aliore was a conventis Cistercian uias est Esli sed in a in Ma 's' nil by the hincertain tot of the welsili contury.' nino solith si de of Edinburgii nea the cit Wall, a Convent of nun was dedicatsed to a in Mar of Placentia; and the place of iis oundation a callod rom it by corruption the

Dominicana uias, hicli a foundo by I ad Satiat latros Mossin tho Countes of Catiliness, in the fifteontii centur ;and dedicato 1 o Salii Catherine of Sisenna, the resorme of

fuch uias. The obtainod sonio laniis in the vicinity, and soni tonem ent in dilaburgh. There a a pries Who was attached to this convent This place here the convent stood was callei Siennes, and by corruption Meens. The poetLyndsay, in his Satire of the Three Estates, alludes to the honos an industrious lives of thos nunsu and e senils Chastit to thei convent, as a proper asylum. Aster the Rosormation ad involve such stablishment in discredit,

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PREFACE. iii

tho Magistrates of dilaburgh oigod the revenues of thoworth nun and Danae Christian Ballendon, the prioress, was herob inducet to appl to ille Quoen, in ordo toobligo them to a Beatrice lachader, an aged sister, thesmali portionis victuat whichiad osen allottod sor se subsistoneo, being the rent of a tenement hicli ho saltior adgranted to the convent, and a no appropriated by the Magistrates.

It is probabie, that the later riters in thus ascribin theondowment of tho nuntior to I ad Caithness, havo adoptod Spottiswoodo' assortion, Without Xamination, and without considering that Mailland a much bottor aut hori , ad senunablo to trae iis origin. Whatove may avo been thecause, oKevor, that the were in error is obvious, because the chartor nil papa buli, o Printed shew, that theconvent in quoslion wed iis oundation to tho tot of

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Tho ladios adopted thoido of Sa in Augustin, and enlistod

columi on Signature a j

of this ver raro book, hicli a translatod rom a se of tho aint in Latin, i a orshipsul loci ria Raymonii, of tho ordor of aint Dominio, Doctor of Divinity, and Confossor of this oly Virgin,' there are copios in thoΚing' Librarios, in that os Eari Sponcor, and in tho publiclibrar a Cambridge Tho Roxburghe copy, No. 232 Soldsor Ε95. lilys noticos an odition by Wynhyn do ordo in foliori ut iis existen o D Dibdin remartis, very doubi fui,' Vol. m. p. 329 lilys also mentions a Similar ork,

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kalendar of sainis, it ma not perhaps, e ut os placo togivo a sex particular relative to her, extractod hi fl fronatho curiolis biography, Written by her contemporar undconfossor, ather Raymond. She was of humbio orio in. hor atho solio vin the occupation os a dyer. He is thus d scribsed by the reversend ath rQ- Fuit vir unus in civitato

Sensensi regionis Tusciae, nomine Jacobus, Cujus Pater Vocatus est moro illius patriae vulgaritor, Beneiacasa et erat vir ille simplex et absque dolo et fraude, ac timens Deum, recedensque a malo. Hi orbatus parentibus, Xorem accepit de civitate sua, nomine Lapam, seminam Siquidem omnino alienam a quacumque malitia hominum modernorum, quamvis in factis dona sticis se samiliae Satis solertem, prout manifestum

est omnibus noscentibu eam, cum adhuc Vivat in Corpore.

Hi sic matrimonialiter conjuncti, et in simplicitate niti, quamvis plebeji, rebus tamen temporalibus juxta condition inpropriam abundant, et de Satis laudabili popularium genere orti erant. BenediXitque Dominus Lapam, et oecunditate ipsam adimplens, tanquam abundantem vitem Constituit in lateribus domus Jacobi viri sui jam quasi omni anno filium aut filiam pariebat, et Saepe gemello aut gemellas concepit. VJames heroaster ecam a dyer o whicli occupation healso rought ut his sons. He is represented as a simplem in led person, greatly attached totis is and family. Thobirili of Suin Cathorino is thus describod Cum praedicta

Se his Lis os ain Catherine in the Acta Sanctorum, Vol. III. p. 859.

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Lapa, quasi apis fructuosa, frequenter pariendo, filiis ot filiabus alvoum viri sui Jacobi adimpleret, prout superius dictum est:

accidit superna dispensatione, ipsam concipere, circa finem temporis partus Sui, et parere prolem geminam Seu gemellam, quam oportebat, praedestinatione aeterna Coram divinis aspectibus praeSentari, prout rei probavit eventus. Peperit ergo filias duas, seXu fragilos, sed fragiliores, ut tunc apparebat, Corporis roboro; sed tamen firmas in Supernae majestati ConSpectu. Has ut aspexit diligentius ipsa, quae partum ediderat Considerans o non posse ambabus in lactis nutrimento susticere, deliboravit altoram alteri nutrici committere, alteram Veroalondam proprio lacte retinere. Domini autom nutu factumost, ut illam apud Se nutriendam eligeret, quam Dominus in sponsam legerat ab aeterno. Accepta igitur sacri baptismatis

gratia per utramque, quamVi ambo sorent de numero electorum, praeelecta tamen Vocata Si Catharina, reliqua vero

Joanna est dicta. Haec ultima, quia cum gratia baptismigratia nomen acceperat, in illa gratia evolavit ad coelum in rovi namque de medio sublata est Catharina propriae

genitricis ad ubera remanente, ut tandem Catenam ad coelum traheroi animarum. Porro Lapa tanto diligentius remanentem filiam nutrivit, quanto prae Sorore defuncta electam solam apud se remansisse ConSiderabat Sicque factum est, ut ipsa

mihi saepe retulit, quod super omnes filios O filias hanc diloxit.

Narrabat siquidem, quod Propter frequente Conceptiones, nullum o filiis potuerat proprio lacte nutrire hane autem ideo usque ad finem nutriVit, quia quouSque tempus nutrimenti ejus Completum est, non St Concepti subsocutan ut

viilotico in illa filia inducias pariendi aboret, et ad finem

partus appropinquaret, quae finem omnis persectionis oberotat tingere simul et adipisci, quasi fuerit terminata. Constat

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namque, id quod per agentem primo intenditur, exocutioni operis ultimo domandari. Lapa vero haec, post oditam Catharinam, semel tantummodo peperit quandam Joannam quae defunctam Cathorinae sociam Suscitavit, et finis impositus est partu ejus, post viginti quinque pepererat.' Catharino a the pet os hor relatives, aespeciali of hormotho Lapa, - and had the nam of Euphrosin iven her, quo instinctu,' Saysin monil ignoro.' The olde sister, Bonaventura, ad married a Fouia man of Sisenna, Called Nicholas, ho was ather a re spolien person, much inclinedio conviviatity, and soni os ei ob inihimself in compan with

company and ille talli. It was in his ous that Catharino sponta much of horioisure timeri andine night returninis rona thenc homo,

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viii PREFACE. accordin to e Consessor' account, in aere quemdam thalamum pulcherrimum, ornatum regaliter cum decore, in

quo Salvator Mundi Dominus Jesus Christus in throno importali odobat, indutus Pontificalibus vestibus, habens in

capite tiaram, seu monarchicam et papalem mitram Orantque

cum eo Apostolorum principes Petrus et Paulus, ac beatissimus Evangelista Joannes. No wonde that the futuro satiat was considerabi astonished noto Sa alai med - at this remari able Sight quod cum illa stupons intueretur, fixit pedes et irreverberatis obtutibus, Salvatorem Suum aspiciebat utriusque hominis oculis amorose. At ille, qui ob hoc se tam mirabiliter

ostendebat, ut misericorditer traheret amorem ejus ad e, mari statis oculos defigens in eam, amorosissime subridens, extenta deXtera Super enim, munus ei benedictionis suae aeternae sueto signo allati sero Crucis, juxta Praelatorum consuetudinem, contulit gratiose. V

took upon horself ow of hastityn and tho praye to the Virgin, n his evenisu occasion, illi found by the curious in Futhor Raymond. Asiatharine increa sed in ears, o didisti in piety andalthough, in consequence of heroo S, laici prevented herparent frona Completin an advant ageous arriage so herwhon in he twolsth par of ago, he exposed herseis to much contumely an annoyance, the weetneS of her temper, horpatience, and Singula pie , at ast induceti her paronis toroturn to that indiaess hieli ad at an earlier date, charac