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Of or pertaining to monastery or to monastic life...
Monasteries Dissolution Acts (English)
Monasteries Dissolution Acts (English) (27 Hen. 8, c. 28; 31 Hen. 8, c. 13; 32 Hen. 8, cc. 7, 24); and consult Br. & Had. Cm. i. 466, and ii. 68. As to existing law of banishment of members of Roman Catholic religious orders (not being nunneries), see ROMAN CATHOLICS...
Minster
A church of a monastery The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist as Beverly Minster Southwell Minster etc and is also improperly used for any large church...
palimpsest
A parchment which has been written upon twice the first writing having been erased to make place for the second The erasures of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts such as copies of church services and lives of the saints The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing the original texts on parchments which had been washed with lime water and dried were easily recovered by a chemical process but those erased by scraping the parchment and bleaching are difficult to interpret Most of the manuscripts underlying the palimpsests that have been revived are fragmentary but some are of great historical value One Syriac version of the Four Gospels was discovered in 1895 in St Catherines Monastery at Mount Sinai by Mrs Agnes Smith Lewis See also the notes below...
Censuales
Censuales, a species or class of the oblati or voluntary slaves of churches or monasteries, i.e., those who, to procure the protection of the Church, bound themselves to pay an annual tax or quit-rent out of their estates to a church or monastery. Besides this, they sometimes engaged to perform certain services, Jac. Law Dict....
Monasticon anglicanum
Monasticon anglicanum. A monumental work by Sir Wm. Dugdale, Kt., Garter Principal King-at-Arms, originally published in Latin. It contains a history of the abbeys and other monasteries, hospitals, friaries and cathedral and collegiate churches with their dependencies in England and Wales, and also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries as were connected with religious houses in England. The best modern edition is that published in 1817-1830, under the editorship of Messrs. Caley, Ellis and Bandinel....
Rector
Rector, a governor; in ecclesiastical law, either a layman, sometimes called a 'lay rector' or 'lay impropriator,' who has that part of the revenues of a church which before the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII. was appropriated to a monastery, the incumbent generally being a 'vicar'; or, in cases where the living had not been so impropriated and a spiritual person, the 'parson,' who has the whole revenues together with the cure of souls. See 1 Bl. Com. 384.The spiritual head and presiding officer of a church, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1281....
Bursar
A treasurer or cash keeper a purser as the bursar of a college or of a monastery...
Bursary
The treasury of a college or monastery...
Cell
A very small and close apartment as in a prison or in a monastery or convent the hut of a hermit...
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