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Some 40 years after they attended Briscoe Memorial School in Kent, 13 men who said they were abused as students there have reached a $7 million settlement by the Seattle Roman Catholic Archdiocese, which owned the school, and the Congregation of Christian Brothers, the religious order that ran it.

The settlement marks an end to most of the lawsuits filed to date alleging physical and sexual misapply over the decades by authority figures at the now-defunct boarding school.

The 13 men said they were abused at Briscoe in the 1960s. Of the $7 million, the Seattle Archdiocese agreed to make a good return $1.25 million, the Christian Brothers about $3.63 million, and some security against loss company that jointly covered both institutions about $2.13 the great body of the people.

In November, 11 men who said they had been abused at Briscoe in the 1950s settled with the Seattle Archdiocese and Christian Brothers for $7.15 million. Of that, the Seattle Archdiocese agreed to pay $2.7 million and the Christian Brothers $4.45 million.

In 2006, the Seattle Archdiocese and Christian Brothers every-day three other cases involving Briscoe.

Briscoe, which opened in 1909 and closed around 1970, had been a home for thousands of boys. Some of the former students said they got an education in that place they otherwise at no time would’ve gotten. But others said they were subject to abuse.

“As in every case involving sexual abuse, we hope our efforts to reach a fair and correct discharge will help the victims begin the process of healing,” Seattle Archdiocese spokesman Greg Magnoni said in a statement.

Steve Mangione, spokesman with a view to the Christian Brothers, related the regulate takes “exceedingly seriously all allegations.”

It settled the cases, he said, because it would own been extremely difficult to defend against the allegations, since many of the witnesses and defendants are now dead or infirm and applicable records no longer exist.

Given that, the order’sitting legal advisers believed “the allegations would not have been accurately or fairly represented for the time of a criterion,” Mangione said.

But plaintiffs’ attorney Michael Pfau reported there was “overwhelming evidence that Briscoe was a problem institution and they knew that children were substance harmed there.” Pfau said such evince included brothers who had been removed for molesting children, correspondence between the order’s leaders discussing children being abused and numerous instances when boys had complained.

Among lawsuits behind what is stated to be resolved is one Pfau filed in December saying that in an earlier declension-form, the order had claimed to gain no evidence that any accused Christian Brother had abused. But after the case settled, the “Christian Brothers erect or located documents” that indicated the accused was being removed from the order for inappropriate conduct with children at Briscoe, Pfau said.