Williams' detailed explanations of contemporary banking and foreign exchange practices, however, provide perhaps the most valuable resource for a full understanding of the nuns' accounts - explanations that will be of use to scholars more widely.
INNES REVIEW
For historians of the exile religious communities and scholars of early eighteenth-century legal and economic studies, this volume is a ... Read morerich resource to be discovered and exploited from a range of perspectives.
JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
This book is a helpful primary resource for viewing the day-to-day life of British religious after their exile.
MAGISTRA
Provides a perspective on the lives of those living in the Flanders convents.which will inform scholarship on English female monasticism for some time to come.
DOWNSIDE REVIEW
Will be of use to scholars interested in post-Reformation Catholicism and the exiled religious orders, while also appealing to those working more generally in economic, political and legal history.
ARCHIVES
This book gives what must surely be the most detailed picture yet of what was involved in keeping English Roman Catholic religious houses on the continent afloat in the century and a half before Catholic Emancipation.... It is a major work of scholarship, which should bring this important archive to wider attention.
ARCHIVES & RECORDS
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