At the Dissolution there were fifty-seven friaries (see lists in F.
The Friars Preachers came to England and were established at Oxford in 1221, and by the end of the century fifty friaries were founded all over England, usually in the towns, and several in Ireland and Scotland.
The commission to visit [thorn]e Oxford friaries in 1538 consisted of Dr.
In 1541 a commission was issued to Sir Anthony St. Leger and others to survey and suppress all the friaries in Ireland.
Most of the friaries had been founded or beautified by great families, who still continued to befriend them, and who reserved a last resting-place within their walls.
The favourite places for friaries were thus the larger towns.
Fragments of friaries are left in many of our large towns: of their general arrangements much can be seen at the Dominican friary in Bristol and in the ruins of the Austin friary at Clare and the Carmelite friary at Hulne.
Besides the southern places mentioned in this bequest, friaries in the east, at Norwich and Ipswich, and in the west, at Hereford and Bristol, had goodly libraries.
He made his new associates envious with an account of the goods of the friaries at Roxburgh and Berwick.
The friaries were always founded in, or in the suburbs of, the larger towns, for their mission was to the masses of the people.
The burgesses of the towns in which the friaries were situated seem to have regarded them as useful workers among the poor.
In many of the towns the civic authorities consented to hold the site and buildings of the friaries in trust, in order to evade the rule which forbade the orders themselves to hold property.
Very few new monasteries were founded after the twelfth century; very few friaries after the thirteenth century.
Again, speaking generally, one may say that while the Benedictine priory is found under the shadow of a castle, and the Cistercian abbey in the heart of the country, the friaries were built in the slums of the towns.
He devoted his energies to training up lecturers who should go to the Franciscan friaries in the chief towns in England and Wales and teach friars and clergy the art of popular preaching.
Coming now to theFriaries in Wales, we find ourselves in a different atmosphere.
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