Meanings of priories in English

I don't know what travellers would do were it not for the priories.

There were nearly sixty monasteries, priories, hospitals, maisons-dieu, and chapels.

Why were parks and inclosures usually attached to priories?

The possessions of each langue in its native land were divided into grand priories and bailiwicks.

They were frequently regular ''priories,'' but sometimes only ''cells,'' and even ''granges,', with small chapels attached.

He reserved to himself the appointments to all priories and churches, and the military feofs and escheats.

He drew the salaries of several priories during his life, more lowly paid priests apparently doing the work.

The foundations of abbeys and priories, of colleges and schools, together with lands and privileges granted to them.

At the suppression of the alien priories in the fifteenth century Steyning passed to the new Abbey of Sion.

The revenues of all the foreign priories in England, a hundred and ten in number, were appropriated to the crown.

This Laurence Washington was for some time mayor of Northampton, and on the dissolution of the priories by Henry VIII.

Even if we had the necessary funds to endow these priories, have we enough brethren to take charge of them?

Of all the priories and nunneries and monasteries of England that he has closed he is allowing this one light to shine?

There is wealth hidden away-wealthworth many priories; you and yours shall have your share of it, and that Commissioner shall not go lacking.

We would give up our lives for his benefiting, while ye are content to lie snug in your abbeys and priories let reign who will.

See Dr. Brown Willis, in his separate histories of Cathedral Priories, Mitred Abbeys, &c.