friary
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Most of the dead were buried in town cemeteries or plague pits such as one on Bene't Street next to the former friary.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
Old Hall, which dates back to the 16th Century, was a convent, an army barracks and a friary before it was bought in 1974 by 14 families who formed the community.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2023
They also collected similar samples from 25 nonmonastic skeletons interred around the same time at a rural parish around a kilometer away from the friary ruins.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022
Mr. McCarrick, who has never been criminally charged, has been living in an undisclosed location since leaving a Capuchin friary in Kansas in January.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2020
The prefix recalls the former lordship of the manor possessed by the friary of St John of Jerusalem in Clerkenwell, London.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
Many friaries were even outfitted with running water systems—a luxury absent from even aristocratic households of the time—to allow the friars to wash their hands.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022
But enough has been written to show the origin and growth of libraries among the religious both of the abbeys and the friaries.
From Old English Libraries by Savage, Ernest Albert
Lord Cork reported that "he had set up two houses of correction in dissolved friaries, in which the beggarly youths are taught trades."
From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by MacCaffrey, James
The friars proved extremely obstinate, and Henry sent commissioners to seek out and suppress all those friaries that refused to submit.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
This arrangement is frequent in Ireland, where the numerous small friaries afford admirable exemplifications of these peculiarities of ground-plan.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
