It cannot be doubted that the gentry and the substantial middle class appreciated them; up to the very eve of the Dissolution legacies to monastic houses are a common feature in wills.
If this somewhat mythical statement cannot claim general acceptance on account of its antiquity, it is at least an acknowledged fact that Glastonbury was one of the earliest of monastic houses established in England.
When the dread fiat went forth for the destruction of monastic houses, there were in York alone 128 ecclesiastical establishments, including forty-one parish churches and nine religious houses.
There are many instances of the nave only being saved out of the general wreck, and these, to this day, form the bodies of churches so rescued from the wholesale destruction of monastic houses.
Pray and work" was the maxim of monastic houses, when monastic houses had a mission in the West.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monastic houses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
