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The army of her entire territory was eighty thousand; and within it she counted fifteen hundred noble, families, every one absolutely submissive to her gonfalier of justice. She had within her walls a hundred and ten churches, seven priories, and thirty hospitals for the sick and poor; of foreign guests, on the average, fifteen hundred, constantly.
John and the Augustinians and Franciscans of Naas, the Priories of Conall and Clane, the Hospital of Castledermott, the Dominicans of Athy; the Franciscans of New Abbey, the Carmelites of Cloncurry, the Abbey of Baltinglass, and the College of Maynooth, the Priory of St. Fechin at Fore, and of Mullingar, the Hospital of St.
This reopening of the question discussed, ad nauseam, at Amiens proved that the Maltese Question would long continue to perplex the world. The matter was still further complicated by the abolition of the Priories, Commanderies, and property of the Order of St.
The struggle against these alien priories had been carried on for many years, and so many of them had been abolished that the people became accustomed to the seizure of monasteries. Large sums of money were annually paid to the pope, and the English people were loudly complaining of the constant drain on their resources.
And these priories were suppressed, to the number of more than a hundred houses." Stow's Chronicle, p. 345. The commission is in Morton's Register, MS., Lambeth Library. Morton's Register, MS., Lambeth. Warham's Register, MS., Lambeth. Ibid. See Injunctions to the Clergy: Foxe, Vol. V. p. 165. Burnet's Collectanea, p. 74. Strype's Ecclesiastical Memorials, Vol.
"Say nothing to her," murmured Mother Matilda; "I may fail." "You may fail, or you may succeed. If you fail and we burn, God shall reward you. If you succeed and we are saved, on her behalf I swear that you shall not suffer. There is wealth hidden away wealth worth many priories; you and yours shall have your share of it, and that Commissioner shall not go lacking.
Father Burrowes was even more successful as a preacher than he hoped; ascribing the steady flow of offertories to Divine favour, he instituted during the next four years, priories at Aldershot and Sandgate.
In March, 1535-6, an Act was passed by Parliament granting to the King all religious houses possessing a revenue under £200 per annum. There were about eighteen houses in the diocese, excluding the cathedral, and of these only the priories of Wenlock, Wigmore, and Leominster possessed revenues exempting them from appropriation.
How different from thy choice of a sepulchre have been the fortunes of thy tomb! I will that none should break The marble for my sake, Wishful to make more fair My sepulchre. So didst thou sing, or so thy sweet numbers run in my rude English. Wearied of Courts and of priories, thou didst desire a grave beside thine own Loire, not remote from
I daresay you have frequently seen the Cluniac Priory of St. Ambrose at Brindleford?" Mike, who would not have recognised a Cluniac Priory if you had handed him one on a tray, said he had not. "Dear me! You have missed an opportunity which I should have been glad to have. I am preparing a book on Ruined Abbeys and Priories of England, and it has always been my wish to see the Cluniac Priory of St.
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