friary

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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

Old Hall, which dates back to the 16th Century, was a convent, an army barracks and a friary before it was bought in 1974 by 14 families who formed the community.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 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