Thus Englished by Fuller:—
“Chaste Faith still stays behind though hence be flown
Those veyled nuns who here before did rest:
For reverend marriage wedlock vows doth own,
And sacred flames keep here in loyal brest.”
ANCIENT CLOISTERS IN CLERKENWELL
Some remains of the cloisters were standing in 1785. They were figured in the Gentleman’s Magazine for that year.
The Church of St. James was originally the choir of the nunnery, and was made a Parish Church on the Dissolution.