Strangers and Sojourners at Port Royal Being an Account of the Connections between the British Isles and the Jansenists of France and Holland

Originally published in 1932, this book presents an account of the connections between Jansenism and Britain. Using a broad range of material, the text discusses the various ways in which British people came into contact with Jansenism, both at home and abroad. Illustrative figures, a chronology and bibliography are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Jansenism and European history.

Preface; Chronology; The five propositions; The formulary of Alexander VII; 1. Early days; 2. In and about Port Royal; 3. Port Royal and the exiles (1647–56); 4. Port Royal and the exiles (cont.) (1656–60); 5. Les Bénédictines Anglaises; 6. Ludovic Stuart d'Aubigny and his French friends; 7. Aubigny and the Cardinalate; 8. 'The mysterie of Jesuitisme' and other translations; 9. News from abroad (1664–1714); 10. 'The better kind of Papists'; 11. The English Roman Catholics and Jansenism (seventeenth century); 12. The English Roman Catholics and Jansenism (eighteenth century). The English College at Douay; 13. L'affaire des Hibernois. Friends at Rome. Wadding and Nolan; 14. Ireland and Jansenism; 15. Arnauld and England. The royal family at Saint-Germain; 16. The Innes family and the Collège des Ecossais. Scottish Jansenists; 17. The Saint-Germain colony; 18. Latter day friends; A letter of ordination from Bishop Fagan; A note on a pseudo M. de Luzancy; A list of books connected with Port Royal and Jansenism, being seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English books, or translations from French into English, or books published in England; Authorities; Index.