Lukewarmness--The Loss of Grace--Inconvenience of Laxity in Religious Houses VIII.
Is it true that in religious houses no explanations are necessary, for it is only reasonable we should be excused these observances?
But deceptions of this kind were too familiar to a man who had examined half the religious houses in England.
We shall be concerned with two kinds of religious houses--namely, the houses of monks and the houses of friars.
Details of re-erections of religious houses on old sites are particularly desired.
Henry left a large sum to religious houses in England and Normandy, and particularly to lepers.
Extensive works of hospitality were done by religious houses, particularly in the northern counties.
Sidenote: The number of religious houses in England at their dissolution.
Nor was taxation for public purposes the only demand made upon the religious houses.
All monasteries derived a more or less large income from certain grants made to them in their capacity as religious houses.
It was a time for establishing or founding new =religious houses=.
It led in time to many squabbles between townsmen and the religious houses.
Most of Edward VI grammar-schools were founded out of small portions of property which had belonged to religious houses.
They entertained no respect for monastic life, and frequently profaned the sanctity of religious houses by the violation or seduction of their inmates.
Some were very ancient, dating back to the 16th century; and had once been palaces, religious houses, castles or fortresses.
Chief among them are the many monastic buildings vacated when the laws broke up religious houses in Spain and which were mostly converted into prisons, but little deserving the name.
Historical monographs on religious houses, in which attention is paid to plan and architectural features, should not be forgotten.
Religious houses no longer afforded the only career possible to those who were unfitted for the limited professions open to the medieval layman.
At the time of the Reformation, as I have before observed, ministers were appointed by the Crown, to take and keep the accounts of all monies derived from the lands which had belonged to religious houses.
Before the fifteenth century it was usual for travellers to seek the hospitality of religious houses, the great people being lodged in rooms set apart for them, while the poorer sort found shelter in the guest-house.
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