ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. Robert Gordon later founder of Robert Gordon's Hospital in his hometown of Aberdeen, was settled simultaneously in the former city as the new century began, prior to making the reimbursements in his home country that were so characteristic of the wealthier Scottish merchants in the Commonwealth as well as the return migration that was less typical. In Prague, and despite the commencement of a much more introspective period in their history, the Irish Franciscans remained a visible part of city life, as would be the case down to their suppression in 1786. The adventurous British or Irish traveller of around 1700 might have learnt from the friars there that Edmund Powelston had taken control of the Butler estates elsewhere in the crownlands and that, further to the south-east, Johann Butler was continuing the military career on the frontier with the Ottoman Empire.
