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	Grey Friars — Infoplease.com
		Franciscan friars, so called from their grey habit.
		Black friars are Dominicans, and White friars Carmelites.
		Grey Friars - Grey Friars Franciscan friars, so called from their grey habit.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/brewers/grey-friars.html (125 words)

	FRANCISCANS - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCISCANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The request was granted, and a bull was issued formally approving the order of Friars Minor, and decreeing that before admission every one must pass a years novitiate, and that after profession it was not lawful to leave the order.
		The news of the martyrdom of five of his friars in Morocco was one of the joys of St Franciss closing years.
		The English province was one of the most remarkable in the order, especially in intellectual achievement; it produced Friar Roger Bacon, and, with the single exception of St Bonaventure, all the greatest doctors of the Franciscan theological school Alexander Hales, Duns Scotus and Occam.
	27.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FRANCISCANS.htm (2815 words)

	ABBEY, E. A. - LoveToKnow Article on ABBEY, E. A. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The friars' churches were at first destitute of towers; but in the I4th and r$th centuries, tall, slender towers were commonly inserted between the nave and the choir.
		The Grey Friars at Lynn, where the tower is hexagonal, fa a good example.
		Of the convents of the Carmelite or White Friars we have a good example in the Abbey of Hulne, near Alnwick, the first of the order in England, founded A.D. The church is a narrow oblong, destitute of aisles, 123 ft. long by only 26 ft. wide.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AB/ABBEY_E_A_.htm (1394 words)

	Queens' College Record 2003 - The White Friars
		The friars' main raison d'etre was teaching and preaching, and so young friars were sent from convents all over the country to be educated at the Oxford or Cambridge houses.
		Friars attending the University lived and were probably for the most part taught within their own convents.
		Friars Building itself, though set slightly further south and west, must stand more-or-less on the site of the Carmelites' church and the rest of the buildings would have stood to the west and south of the church.
	www.quns.cam.ac.uk /Queens/Record/2003/Historical/WhiteFriars.html (3875 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Gazetteer (Greno-Grh) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Grey Friars is a village in Suffolk, England.
		Grey Green is a village in Lincolnshire, England.
		Grey's Green is a village in Oxfordshire, England.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /GBAC.HTM (398 words)

	Chapter Gregorian Tree <i>to</i> Grievance-monger of G by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		It is said that a man wished to buy a horse, but his wife took a fancy to a grey mare, and so pertinaciously insisted that the grey mare was the better horse, that the man was obliged to yield the point.
		Grey Wethers These are huge boulders, either embedded or not, very common in the "Valley of Stones" near Avebury, Wilts.
		Grey Mare's Tail A cataract that is made by the stream which issues from Lochskene, in Scotland, so called from its appearance.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1172/22851/2.html (552 words)

	The Cardiff Friars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The estates of the Friars, whether Franciscan, Dominican or Carmelite, do not appear to have been called manors; but as the name of "Friars," or "White Friars," has been connected with that of the manor properly called "Kibbor and Cardiff," it may be well to give some facts with respect to them.
		The house of the Black Friars, Dominicans, or Friars Preachers, was between the Castle and the river Taff.
		The Grey Friars house is in ruins; of the Black Friars only the foundations remain, in the grounds just west of the Castle.
	www.btinternet.com /~pat.sewell/cr/manors/cr-friars.html (422 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Friar
		In the life of the friar, on the contrary, the exercise of the sacred ministry is an essential feature, for which the life of the cloister is considered as but an immediate preparation.
		The Dominicans, or Friars Preachers, formerly known as the Black Friars, from the fl cappa or mantle worn over their white habit, were founded by St. Dominic in 1215 and solemnly approved by Honorius III, in Dec., 1216.
		The Franciscans, or Friars Minor (Grey Friars), were founded by St. Francis of Assisi, who is rightly regarded as the patriarch of the mendicant orders.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06280b.htm (1091 words)

	Hans Tausen
		The protagonist of the Danish Reformation, born at Birkende in Funen in 1494.
		A compromise was at last arranged, whereby the friars were to preach in the forenoon and Tausen in the afternoon.
		He continued to preach in the Grey Friars' church, while Sadolin, whom he had "consecrated" a priest, officiated at the church of the Dominicans, who had already fled from the town.
	www.nndb.com /people/454/000098160 (643 words)

	Page2Franciscan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From the grey habit which they wore in the early days (grey because it was of undyed wool) the Franciscans were known as the Grey Friars.
		In 1897 Pope Leo XIII united all but two of the numerous groups of Franciscans into one body to be known as the “Friars Minor"; the two exceptions were the Conventuals and the Capuchins or, to give them their full title, the Conventual Friars Minor and the Capuchin Friars Minor.
		Friars Minor, Conventuals and Capuchins are all members of the First Order.
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	Old English Libraries - Chapter III. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Grey Friars were at London, Oxford, and Cambridge in 1224, and by 1256 they were in forty-nine different localities.
		If a friar was promoted to a bishopric, he had to renounce the use of the books he had had as a friar; and Clement IV forbade the consecration of a bishop until he had returned the books to his friary.
		But if the friar was a man of parts the gift was devoted to acquiring books for his studies, or to giving him other necessary assistance; the duty, it was held, which the Superior owed him.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/historical/OldEnglishLibraries/chap3.html (6667 words)

	Edinburgh Picturesque Notes - CHAPTER V. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		T was Queen Mary who threw open the gardens of the Grey Friars: a new and semi-rural cemetery in those days, although it has grown an antiquity in its turn and been superseded by half-a-dozen others.
		The Friars must have had a pleasant time on summer evenings; for their gardens were situated to a wish, with the tall castle and the tallest of the castle crags in front.
		It was a grey, dropping day; the grass was strung with rain-drops; and the people in the houses kept hanging out their shirts and petticoats and angrily taking them in again, as the weather turned from wet to fair and back again.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/geo/travel/EdingburghPicturesqueNotes/chap5.html (1975 words)

	Franciscans, Friars Minor, Gray Friars, OFM
		The rapid conversion of the Native Americans and the consequent enthusiasm of the missionary-minded in Spain led to the further spread of the order in the West Indies; before 1505, Ferdinand V, king of Castile, found it necessary to issue a decree that new convents should be placed at least five leagues apart.
		The Franciscan Order is one of four thirteenth century orders of mendicant (begging) friars (Franciscan, Dominican, Carmelite, Augustinian) established to meet the urgent challenge of spiritual decline, urban growth, and the rapid spread of heresy (especially in southern France and northern Italy).
		Nonetheless, instead of becoming rebellious heretics, the friars were obedient servants of the established church.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/francisc.htm (2864 words)

	In the Court of the Crimson King ~ On Soft Gray Mornings
		"The Franciscan and grey friars came up under the Emperor Frederick II., at the time St Elizabeth was canonized, in the year 1207.
		There had been so many of those grey friars, that they offered to send forty thousand of their number against the Turks, and yet leave their monasteries sufficiently provided for."
		Widows and "grey" friars are references to the Inquisition.
	www.songsouponsea.com /Promenade/CourtF.html (1838 words)

	*HARBEN DICTIONARY WINDOW* (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Grey Friars.-A house of Franciscan Friars, or Friars Minors, on the north side of Newgate Street, on the site afterwards occupied by Christ's Hospital and Christ Church Newgate Street.
		Lodged for 15 days with the preaching friars in Holborn and then hired a house in Cornhill of John Treners, Sheriff (S. They increased so rapidly in numbers and popularity that they were removed by the citizens to a place in S. Nicholas Shambles.
		In 1547 a grant was made to the mayor and citizens of the church of the Grey Friars, house and site of the Friars, le Fraytrye, le Lybraye, le Dorter, le Chapiter House, le Greate Cloyster, and le Little Cloyster and houses on the north of the Little Cloyster (L. and P. (2), p.
	www.motco.com /Harben/2519.htm (416 words)

	Ancestors of Timothy Walter Luscher - pafg41 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		She was buried on 27 Nov 1358 in Grey Friars, London, Middlesex, England.
		He was buried in Grey Friar's Church, Bodmin, Cornwall, England.
		She was buried in 1332 in At Badmin, Grey Friars.
	www.xmission.com /~luschert/pafg41.htm (353 words)

	Chapter French Leave <i>to</i> Friar's Tale of F by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		The first two were called Black and Grey friars, the Carmelites were called White friars, and the Trinitarians Crutched friars (q.v.
		Friar's Tale A certain archdeacon had a sumpnour, who acted as his secret spy, to bring before him all offenders.
		One day as he was riding forth on his business he met the devil disguised as a yeoman, swore eternal friendship, and promised to "go snacks" with him.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1171/22745/3.html (161 words)

	The Two Babylons: Idol Processions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The bishops and priests, however, were still made upon their idols; and, as the anniversary of the feast of St. Giles was approaching, when the saint used to be carried in procession through the town, they determined to do their best, that the accustomed procession should take place with as much pomp as possible.
		For this purpose, "a marmouset idole" was borrowed from the Grey friars, which the people, in derision, called "Young Sanct Geyle," and which was made to do service instead of the old one.
		On the appointed day, says Know, "there assembled priests, friars, canons...with taborns and trumpets, banners, and bagpipes; and who was there to lead the ring but the Queen Regent herself, with all her shavelings, for honour of that feast.
	www.giveshare.org /library/2babylons/ch5.1.html (1284 words)

	Catholic Diocese of Cleveland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Seminarians are given a liturgical foundation for their spiritual lives, an understanding of Church history and theology, and an opportunity to contemplate and celebrate the sacred mysteries of the Church.
		"Friar" is a modern spelling for the Middle English "fryer," meaning "brother" and deriving from the Latin, frater.
		Friars practice most religious observances associated with monasticism but do not restrict their allegiance to one monastery as monks do.
	www.dioceseofcleveland.org /communications/qanda.asp (11532 words)

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		THE GREY FRIARS' CONVENT CHRIST CHURCH The third of the "three tall spires," albeit nothing else remains of the church to which it belonged, deserves that some notice should be given of it and of the men who reared it.
		In 1234, eleven years after their first coming into England, the Franciscan Friars are heard of at Coventry, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, having granted them land for their oratory, and the Sheriff of Warwickshire, on behalf of the King, giving them shingles from the woods of Kenilworth wherewith to cover it.
		We know that the Friars presented them as late as 1492, when Henry VII was present with his Queen to see the plays "acted by the Grey Friars." No remains exist of the domestic buildings of the Friary.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/1/4/0/11403/11403.txt (19381 words)

	Franciscans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Franciscans were to go among men preaching the word and the example of Jesus, and satisfying their simple needs by the alms of their fellow men, to take poverty as a bride.
		The Dominicans were the fl friars, the Franciscans the grey.
		Both grey and fl became familiar figures on the streets and highways of Europe.
	latter-rain.com /ltrain/franc.htm (464 words)

	Main News Summary Saturday, 23 August 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A reporter of Slobodna Dalmacija was also stopped at a check-point set up by SFOR soldiers, and he stated that soldiers were acting in a very correct way during the search of his vehicle.
		Grey Friars of Herzegovina Friar Province were having spiritual exercises at that time in the Grey Friar House in Masna Luka.
		"We have gotten used to their helicopters, but the Grey Friar brothers are having spiritual exercises and they can't do their job in peace.
	www.nato.int /sfor/media/2003/ms030823t.htm (989 words)

	Grey Friars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Grey Friars, of the order of St Frances of Assisi, first came to the town in 1233 and requested a site in the town.
		It was not until 1282 that the friars were given a more suitable site at the end of Friar Street (then called New Street).
		The reason for the change was that the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the church in England, was a Franciscan and helped his fellow friars.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /radstock/rht/themes/religion/greyfriars.html (173 words)

	Ancestors of Timothy Walter Luscher - pafg39 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		She was buried in Grey Frier's, Coventry, Wiltshire, England.
		He was buried on 22 Jun 1298 in, Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England.
		She was buried on 7 May 1301 in, Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England.
	www.xmission.com /~luschert/pafg39.htm (647 words)

	Family Tree - pafg128 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		She died before 4 May 1379 in Grey Friars, Newgate, Middlesex, England and was buried in Grey Friars, Newgate, Middlesex, England.
		Lionel "of Antwerp" Prince of England Duke of Clarence [Parents] was born 29 Nov 1338 in, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
		She died 7 Sep 1362 in, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England and was buried in Grey Friars, London, Middlesex, England.
	www.internetree.com /winslow/pafg128.htm (756 words)

	Ancestors of George Collie Robison - pafg89 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		He died in Elmley, Worcestershire, England and was buried 22 Jun 1298 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England.
		She died 16 Apr 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England and was buried 7 May 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England.
		He died 20 Aug 1282 and was buried in Church Of The Friars, Minor, Yorkshire, England.
	www.geocities.com /Kolok_net/pafg89.htm (523 words)

	RICHARD'S BURIAL--DECISIONS AND DILEMMAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Grey Friars house at Leicester was probably in existence by 1230, and by 1300 one Walter de Foderingeye [!] was prior.
		In 1402, having supported the cause of Richard II, ten friars of the house and a master of divinity were arrested and brought to London for trial.
		In 1538 when Grey Friars was surrendered by the warden and six others, it had a tiny net revenue of only £1 2s.
	home.cogeco.ca /~richardiii/burial.html (3055 words)

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