Messer Simone's plan had, as we now learned, been applauded by all the magnates, such as Messer Corso Donati and Messer Vieri dei Cerchi, and had received the approval of the priors of the city.
Well, our Captain and Priors put the Peace of the City upon Messer Simone dei Bardi, that was on one side of the quarrel, and on Messer Dante dei Alighieri, that was on the other side of the quarrel.
Later Priors Mill was built upon this site and remained until removed and the creek filled in when the cut was made for the Pennsylvania railroad in 1837.
Even the monasteries, where the ecclesiastical temper was most formidable, were forced to choose abbots and priors whom the king could trust.
Priors Akefield and Drax are historical, and as the latter really did commission a body of moss- troopers to divert an instalment of King James's ransom into his own private coffers, I do not think I can have done him much injustice.
She is one to command scores of holy maids, and have all the abbots and priors round at her beck, instead of one poor man.
Priors were not people to be kept waiting, and as it was reported that the Tutor of Glenuskie was still asleep, Lilias had to depart without taking leave of him.
Have you got any particular reason for wanting to go to Dutton Priors this afternoon?
Until the Dissolution the manor and church of Godmersham belonged to Christ Church, and here, in mediaeval days, the priors of the convent had a fine manor-house, where they frequently resided during the summer months.
The Priorsof Christ Church held their courts here, and the convent records tell us that Prior William Sellyng greatly improved the Priory rooms at Hollingbourne.
Priors Bird and Hollowaye; but the church was not completed when the surrender of the monastery took place, A.
In Priors Hardwick Church, Warwickshire, is a sedile for the priest, and below that one double the size for the deacon and sub-deacon; both are under recessed arched canopies.
Witham had as one of its earliest priors the celebrated Burgundian, Hugh of Avalon, who afterwards became Bishop of Lincoln.
Note the constant reiteration of the Prior's relics, with mitre, though priors did not wear mitres.
The need of action to restore peace to the city was imperative, and the priors took the step of banishing the leaders of both divisions.
Florence had such jealousy of its rulers that the priors held office but two months, so that in the course of each year thirty-six of the citizens were elected to this magistracy.
Her father it was, Ralph de Ludham, who had made the passage through Sweet Apple Tree marsh because the hatedPriors of Noyes hindered people passing through their lands.
The Priors of Noyes were bound to keep it in good repair by reason of the lands they held on both sides of it.
In 1293 occurred what is called the revolution of Gian Della Bella, in which the priors of the trades took the power into their own hands, and made nobility a disqualification for office.
The measure adopted by the Priors of Florence while he was one of them (with his assent and probably by his counsel), of sending to the frontier the leading men of both factions, confirms this implication.
In 1300 we find him elected one of the priors of the city.
The symbolism of these figures has been variously interpreted, and, as the coffin bears no date or inscription, it has given rise to much speculation as to whether its occupant was one of the Priors or a crusader.
The most recent theory, and the most probable, respecting the recesses, is that they mark the tombs of Priors belonging to the Tudor period.
At first three, then six priors were elected from the Grand Guilds—being one for every sestieri, or sixth part of the city.
The new administration was styled ‘The Priors of the Guilds,’ the chief being the Captain of the People, who was called ‘Defender of the Guilds.
The upper magistracy, generally called the Signory, was the College of Priors of the Guilds, or of Freedom, as they were called after 1458.
Subsequent changes made the number of priors eight, two for each quarter of the city.
Yesterday morning he rose and had himself fully dressed, in presence of the priors of San Lorenzo, San Marco, and the monastery.
The obsequies, as announced by Federigo to the Priors of Siena, were celebrated with singular magnificence on the 17th of August, in the Church of S.
Bimonthly election of the priors of Urbino, with certain powers, and with a salary of fifteen ducats.
At Ely the priorswere appointed by the bishop until 1198.
Somewhere underneath the pig-sties, cow-houses, and rick-yards of the farm rest the forgotten priors and the nameless monks of that old foundation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "priors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
