In the following century Wolsey, not anticipating the wholesale destruction which was to follow, sought to dissolve certain small priories in order to assist educational institutions (1523).
In time the foreign priories received the name of alien priories.
King John was the first king to seize these priorieswhen he fell out with France.
Later, King Edward I, in 1295, seized the property of about one hundred of the alien priories in various parts of England to help to pay his war expenses.
So, you see, there were two kinds of priories in England: one class attached to English religious houses, and the other to Norman or foreign religious houses.
In time the foreign priories received the name of =alien priories=.
Since then, other Priories have been established in the country, and the Institution has assumed an importance and dignity worthy of the highest class of gentlemen connected with the Masonic Institutions of Scotland.
Besides the House of the Temple in Mid-Lothian, the following Establishments or Priories of the Order may be enumerated, viz.
But as a general rule the priories were so constituted that the nuns might appoint a prioress subject to the approval of the patron of their house, and she was then consecrated to her office by the bishop.
The number of alien priories in England is differently quoted as a hundred and a hundred and forty[955].
During the wars with France under the Edwards, when manypriories and cells were cut off from their foreign connection, Amesbury regained its old standing as an abbacy.
As early as 1390 William Wykeham bought estates of alien priories for New College, his foundation at Oxford.
The appropriation of alien priories forms an interesting episode in the history of English monasticism, for it constitutes a prelude to the dissolution of monasteries generally.
Owing to the dependence of the order upon Cluny, its English priories shared confiscation with the other alien foundations.
The Conqueror and his followers sought the salvation of their souls by the foundation of abbeys and priories on their new estates.
Of ruins of Cluniac priories in England, the most complete are at Wenlock in Shropshire and Castle Acre in Norfolk.
The Cluniac houses, on the other hand, were priories directly under the supervision of the abbot of Cluny, the autocrat of the order.
The nave with a single aisle, although it is found in some Benedictine churches, as at the priories of Abergavenny and Bromfield, is certainly characteristic of churches of canons, and may be explained on these grounds.
The larger houses, however, frequently founded off-shoots on distant portions of their property, which were governed by priors appointed by the mother house, and were known as priories or cells.
The plans of Lewes and Thetford priories have been recovered from foundations and fragments, and there are substantial remains at Bromholm in Norfolk.
There were also certain priories founded in subordination to foreign houses.
Alien priories also formed a large portion of the possessions of Eton and King's college, Cambridge.
During the hundred years' war with France, the alien priories were repeatedly confiscated by the Crown, and before their final confiscation in 1414 many had been granted to English charterhouses, chantry colleges, and similar foundations.
A marked distinction arose between the monks of cathedral priories such as Canterbury and the secular canons who served such churches as the cathedral of York.
A few priories of nuns, chiefly in the dioceses of York and Lincoln, followed the Cistercian rule.
The same may be said of the Grandimontine order, founded in 1046 at Grandmont in the diocese of Limoges, which during the twelfth century founded three small priories in England.
In 1536 the lesser priories and monasteries were suppressed, and we can well imagine the tremor which this daring act of Henry must have sent through the religious world.
After that time the Cornish priory shared the fate of other so-called alien priories or cells.
He readily undertook the management at Court of the business in connection with the priories under Luther’s supervision, and, later on, contrived by his influence in high quarters to promote the spread of the religious innovations.
The Observantine prioriesof the so-called German Province of the Dominicans (prov.
Among the delegates of the priories present at the Chapter, all of them chosen from the older and more respected monks, there was clearly a majority in favour of Luther.
He expended upon its erection L4,545, and procured considerable revenues for it out of lands of the alienpriories dissolved just before that time.
At the same time Henry converted fourteen abbeys and priories into cathedral and collegiate churches, attaching to each a deanery and a certain number of prebendaries.
This ruling applied as well to all collegiate churches, secular bodies, and abbeys and priories generally.
Here had been founded, in 1124, one of the great Priories or Preceptories under control of the English langue.
Nevertheless, they inspired a natural and just interest as long ago as the time of Charlemagne, who assigned them to the care of the priories and abbeys.
St. Mary Rouncevall, by Charing cross, was an hospital suppressed with the priories aliens in the reign of King Henry V.
Cluny in France, and was, therefore, suppressed among the priories aliens.
He was appointed in 1501 to the bishopric of Moray, holding at the same time the priories of Coldingham and Pittenweem, with the commendatorship of Dryburgh.
The prior of St. Andrews had superiority over the priories of Pittenweem, Lochleven, Monymusk, and the Isle of May, and was also a lord of regality.
Some priories sprang originally from the more important abbeys, and remained under the jurisdiction of the abbots; but subsequently any real distinction between abbeys and priories was lost.
It is commonly represented that the endowment was wholly derived from alien priories bought by Chicheley from the crown.
There were an Augustinian monastery at Inistioge, and priories at Callan and Kells, of all of which there are remains.
Other priories were originally offshoots from the larger abbeys, to the abbots of which they continued subordinate; but in later times the actual distinction between abbeys and priories was lost.
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.
In 1416, Parliament dissolved the alien priories and vested their estates in the crown.
The origin of the alien prioriesdates back to the Norman conquest.
Nectarius visited Athens, Bukarest, and Jassy, where the monks of Sinai now built priories and secured a lasting foothold.
In addition to the house at Raithou, it acquired property and built priories in many outlying districts, and rose to a position of importance that was in every way exceptional.
But among the early Benedictines each monastery was independent and self-governing, though an abbey might have priories in some measure connected with it.
Another class of houses were those founded as priories or cells of English abbeys.
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