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This was the sisterhood founded by [[person:1294]Lydia Sellon] in Plymouth as the Devonport Sisters of Mercy, which took this name on merging in 1856 with the Park Village Sisterhood of the Holy Cross (founded 1845). They were accused in 1849 by the Devonport Telegraphof adopting popish practices, see ‘The Sisters of Mercy at Devonport, Inquiry by the Bishop of Exeter’, Daily News (17 February 1849).