Francis Baines (1648–1710) was an English

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Baines was born in

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in 1648, pursued his humanity studies in the college at St. Omer, and went through his higher course in the

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, which he entered as a convictor or boarder on 6 November 1667. He took the college oath on 27 January 1668–9, and was ordained as a secular priest on 16 April 1672. He was admitted into the

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at Rome, by the father-general,

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, on 4 January 1673 – 1674, and left for Watten to make his noviceship on 5 April or 4 June 1674. He was professed of the four vows on 15 August 1684. A catalogue of the members of the society, drawn up in 1693, states that he took the degree of D.D. at

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, and had been prefect of studies and vice-rector of the college at Liège, and of the "College of St. Ignatius, London." He was appointed confessor to the exiled king, James II, at Saint-Germain, and attended that monarch during his last illness. He died at Saint-Germain on 19 February 1709–10. The jesuit father, François Bretonneau, published ‘"Abrégé de la Vie de Jacques II, Roy de la Grande Bretagne, &c. Tiré d'un écrit Anglois du R. P. François Sanders, de la Compagnie de Jesus, Confesseur de Sa Majesté," Paris, 1703, 12mo. This appeared in English, under the title of: "An Abridgment of the Life of James II … extracted from an English Manuscript of the Reverend Father Francis Sanders … done out of French from the Paris edition," London, 1704. An Italian translation was published at

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in 1703, and at

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in 1704; and a Spanish translation, by Francesco de Medyana y Vargas, appeared at Cadiz in 1707, 4to. Sanders translated from the French version "The Practice of Christian Perfection," by Father

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. This translation has been several times reprinted in England, Ireland, and the United States.

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