'By the Lord Justices General and General Governors of Ireland and Council, Hereas upon information given to us the Lord Justices, That an unlawful Society of Popish Persons calling themselves Nuns, was lately translated from the town of Galway to the City of Dublin, to be there settled and established, by the pretended Order of a person calling himself Brother John Burke of the Order of St Francis and Provincial of Ireland---We the Lord Justices give immediate Directions for the apprehension of the said pretended nuns and of the said John Burke, and divers of said nuns have been since taken in the habits of their pretended order; but said John Burke has absconded himself and fled from Justice--' 12 September 1712.

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