friary
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However, the Richard III Society and University of Leicester archaeologists decided to investigate suggestions the king had actually been buried in the former Greyfriars friary in the city.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Most of the dead were buried in town cemeteries or plague pits such as one on Bene't Street next to the former friary.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
They also collected similar samples from 25 nonmonastic skeletons interred around the same time at a rural parish around a kilometer away from the friary ruins.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022
Mr. McCarrick, who has never been criminally charged, has been living in an undisclosed location since leaving a Capuchin friary in Kansas in January.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2020
The prefix recalls the former lordship of the manor possessed by the friary of St John of Jerusalem in Clerkenwell, London.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
Many friaries were even outfitted with running water systems—a luxury absent from even aristocratic households of the time—to allow the friars to wash their hands.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 18, 2022
In 1900 there were 4350 Dominicans, including lay brothers, and 300 friaries, scattered all over the world.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
The mendicants, Dominican and Franciscan, took rapid root in England; the number of friaries erected in the reign of Henry III. is astounding.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
The friars proved extremely obstinate, and Henry sent commissioners to seek out and suppress all those friaries that refused to submit.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
He devoted his energies to training up lecturers who should go to the Franciscan friaries in the chief towns in England and Wales and teach friars and clergy the art of popular preaching.
From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by A. G. (Andrew George) Little
