Mr. Chisholm Batten's book on Beauly Priory contains many interesting facts regarding the acquisition of these fertile and extensive lands, for which his Lordship paid a certain sum of money.
Sempringham was the head-quarters of the Order, and the dependentpriory of Sixhill was near by.
Paston promised to promote Bukenham to the prioryof Yarmouth, and also, as a reward for his testimony, to give him 13 acres of the testator's land in Scroudby and Caister called Isabell, to the use of the prior and convent of Norwich.
The Sacrist or Sexton of the Priory of Norwich was the officer who had the care of Sacra, or Holy Things, as the Church Plate, Copes, etc.
I went to the Priory the other day, and found a treatise on Blood Pressure, by Dr.
In addition to the Sundays "at home" the Priory doors were open to a small circle of very intimate friends on other days of the week.
I am going to Weybridge on Friday, and I intend to be at the Priory by Saturday before dusk.
Came to Weybridge on 31st October, and returned to the Priory on 1st November.
When the drawing-room door of the Priory opened, a first glance revealed her always in the same low arm-chair on the left-hand side of the fire.
Church, the property of the suppressed and dismantled Abbey of Shaftesbury, and dissolved Priory or College of Slapton.
Leland, founded thepriory and hospital of St. Bartholomew, in West Smithfield, became the first prior, and so remained till his death.
The ground was covered with the bodies of his friends, and he learnt from a few breathless fugitives that his father, with many of his chief nobles, was in the hands of Leicester, and that they were all shut up in the priory of Lewes.
It is pleasant to find the Charter House interchanging charitable offices with its neighbor, the prioryof S.
At the Priory of Bromholm, in Norfolk, there was a celebrated cross, said to be made of fragments of the real cross, and much resorted to by pilgrims.
A child's bedquilt was found mentioned in an inventory of furniture at the Priory of Durham, in 1446, which was embroidered in the four corners with the Evangelistic symbols.
When the attack appeared in the morning papers, Beattie drove out in all haste to the Priory to entreat that the newspapers should be withheld from him, and all mention of the offensive subject be carefully avoided.
She was here at the Priory at luncheon with Captain Peters that morning.
It was for this very quality the Priory had gained its fame.
It was true that since the Sewells had taken up their residence at the Priory he had seen but little of his distinguished friend.
TWO MEN WELL MET Sewell had long coveted the suite of rooms known at the Priory as "Miss Lucy's.
The modern church was built on the site of the Priory Chapel, destroyed during the Revolution.
Dating from the 13th century, when it formed part of the old Priory of St. Médard, it had frequently been restored and altered.
This picture, which seems never to have been finished and shows the under-painting, was formerly the principal altar-piece of the Priory of St. John the Baptist at Borgo San Sepolcro.
When this work was finished and the south-western tower had been completed, in 1481, there was not much left of the Norman priory church built by Lanfranc.
Having become the place of burial for the Kings of Kent and the Archbishops, the Abbey quite overshadowed the Priory of Christ Church, until in 758 Archbishop Cuthbert was secretly buried within the claustral confines of his own priory.
Lanfranc completed his new cathedral in 1077, and in his lifetime he also founded the great Benedictine priory of Christ Church, whose considerable remains add so much medievalism to the surroundings of the vast cathedral.
It was September 29 when he reached the priory of Lanercost, eight miles from Carlisle, and this house he made his headquarters till March 26.
The chief buildings were apparently grouped near the later abbey churchyard, and included, besides two temples, a magnificent bath, discovered when the duke of Kingston pulled down the old priory in 1755 to form the Kingston Baths.
At the age of ten he was put to school with the canons of Merton priory in Surrey.
Its chief interest is the beautiful remains of the Priory of St John, founded in 1230 by John Bisset of the Aird, for Cistercian monks.
St. Albans was no obscure priory in a remote and thinly-peopled county.
The Priory is all scaffolding and paint; and we are still in a nightmare of uncertainty about our boys.
Next they were led back to the Priory to rest and eat a little after their long night's vigil in the cold church, and here they abode awhile, thinking their own thoughts, seated alone in the Prior's chamber.
The priory became wealthy, and the church and other buildings were of great extent.
The priory possessed in all thirty-two churches or their great tithes.
In 1147 the priory was raised to the dignity of an abbey and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, while the smaller buildings of the priory served as a nucleus for the larger buildings of the abbey.
Dunblane, and about 1198 Earl Gilbert and his countess introduced canons-regular by the foundation of the Priory of Inchaffray.
The canons of Whithorn Priory formed the chapter of the see of Galloway, and the prior ranked next to the bishop; the diocese was divided into three rural deaneries.
The buildings of the priory are now reduced to the nave--an aisleless structure--and to some underground vaulted buildings, which no doubt formerly supported the choir and other erections above.
Virgin, and by him granted in 1134 to the priory of St. Andrew.
About 1460, when the monks had become corrupt, they were superseded by the Black Benedictine monks from Dunfermline, and the priory became dependent on that house.
But the discovery that there had been a correspondence between herself and the arch-rebel was a highly important-looking circumstance, and with all apologies to its distinguished owner, the Priory at Rathfarnham was ordered to be searched.
But the register of the Priory of St. Andrews mentions Garnard's successor on the Pictish throne, Nectan II.
Its picturesque ruins still tower above those of the magnificent priory that the great William de Warren raised, “to the honour of God and Our Lady,” for monks of the Cluniac branch of the Benedictine Order.
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