In the upper part of the almonryat Durham were lodged the 'children of the almery,' who were educated at the expense of the monastery and were taught daily in the outer infirmary.
Here were placed various offices and storehouses, and such buildings as the almonry and guest-house, in which the monastery came into necessary contact with secular affairs.
The old chapel of St. Anne stood in the New-way, near the back of the workhouse, at the bottom of the almonry leading to what is now called Stratton Ground.
The first printing-press ever seen in England was set up in this almonry under the patronage of Esteney, Abbot of Westminster, by William Caxton, citizen and mercer (d.
The almonry for the relief of the poor, with a great hall annexed, forms the paupers' hospitium.
The long low building of stone and timber, washed over in the old manner with lime, which rises from the grass on our left was once the Almonry of the Abbey.
Not far away was the hospital, and almost adjoining the principal gatehouse was the Almonry where the poorer guests were received and food served out to the needy.
The almonrywas usually near the church of the monastery.
In the almonry there were usually rooms for the sick.
In the south-west corner of the Refectory is the pit that formerly contained a lift whereby provisions could be hauled up from the bottom story, and the leavings of the monks sent down to the Almonry for distribution among the poor.
Leach considers that the total number of boys educated in the almonryschools was 1,000.
The examples given support the probability that every monastery supported an almonry school.
A third class of school (which will be described in a subsequent chapter) in connection with the monasteries was the Almonry School.
The earliest reference available to almonry boys in monasteries dates from 1320, when it was provided that "no scholar shall be taken into the almonry unless he can read, and sing in the chapel, and is ten years old.
The earliest statutes which set forth the work of the almonry are those of St. Albans, and date from 1339.
The earliest available reference to an almonry school in this country is in connection with St. Paul's Cathedral.
A description of the almonry school at Durham is given in the "Rites of Durham.
This is evidenced by a letter which Queen Philippa wrote to the prior of Canterbury in 1332, and in which she asks for a boy to be admitted into the almonry "to be maintained like other poor scholars of his estate.
No poor scholar shall absent himself from the Almonry without the licence of the sub-Almoner, under the penalty of expulsion until reconciliation.
Only two English books were printed, the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy and The Game and Play of the Chess, when Caxton returned to England and set up his presses in the Almonry at Westminster.
The almonry was one of the courts of the abbey, (situated directly west of the abbey-church, and not east, as Dr.
Stow distinctly says it was in the almonry of the abbey; and the handbill Dr.
The almonry was not merely "within the precincts of the abbey," it was actually a part of the abbey.
This Almonry is thus described by Stow: "Now corruptly the Ambry, for that the alms of the Abbey were there distributed to the Poor.
The address of the present Royal Almonry is 6, Craigs Court.
He placed his press, by permission of the Prior (afterwards Abbot) Islip, in the Almonry just outside the gatehouse.
He hung a red pole at the door for a sign; and soon all the learned men in the kingdom began to gather at the Almonry of Westminster, and talk to William Caxton, the printer of books.
The Almonrysoon became a centre for all that was most cultivated in England.
For to the Almonry eight years before a wise man had come with a strange new invention.
Mr Hooper, the Organist, and Mr John Parsons, the Master of the Choristers, both had houses in the Little Almonry in 1616.
He lived in the little Almonry at Westminster, the block of ancient buildings in which the Purcell family lived.
I invite you to call up this reign by a picture of Caxton's shop: you may imagine yourself in the almonryat Westminster, where, in a small enclosure by the west front of the church, there is a chapel and some almshouses.
To the north of the village are the almonryand infirmary.
Caxton set up his printing press in the almonry at Westminster during the reign of Edward IV.
Caxton’s press was set up in the Almonryat Westminster, at the sign of the Red Pole.
Attached to St. Saviour's was an almonry intended for the same purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "almonry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
