ABSTRACT
The material that appears in this chapter was written by Sister Margaret during the early part of her time at Lierre. It was compiled on separate sheets of paper, in the form of personal statements concerning her spiritual state. The first two extracts are addressed to Margaret of St Teresa (Margaret Downs: 1600/03–82), referred to in one manuscript as ‘Vicaress’ – an office that she held at the convent from 1648, when the nuns moved from Antwerp, until she was formally elected as Superior the following year – and in the other she is ‘Prioress’, providing a post-1649 date for that piece.
