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On this page you
will
find links to some of the information regarding mendicant orders on the
web,
as well as information from
Abbot
Gasquet's book English
Monastic
Life. Gasquet published the book through The Antiquaries
Book
series in
1904. It is now out of print and not generally available.
There may
be a number of factual errors in the text, or points on which
historians or theologians do not agree. Gasquet's
text, notes & links>>
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The Friars
The friars
differed from the monks
in certain ways. The brethren by their
profession were bound, not to any locality or house, but to the
province, which
usually consisted of the entire number of houses in a country. They did not, consequently, form individual
families in their various establishments, like the monks in their
monasteries. They also, at first,
professed the strictest poverty, not being allowed to possess even
corporate
property like the monastic Orders. They
were by their profession mendicants, living on alms, and only holding
the mere
buildings in whey they dwelt.
The Lesser Friars
Austin Friars, or
Hermits
The body of Austin Friars took its
historical
origin in the
union of several existing bodies of friars effected in A.D.
1265 by Pope
Clement IV. They were regarded as
belonging to the ranks of the mendicant friars and not to the Monastic
Order. They were very widely spread, and
in Europe in the sixteenth century they are
said to have
possessed three thousand convents, in which were thirty thousand friars
;
besides three hundred convents of nuns. In
England
at the time of the dissolution they had some thirty-two friaries.
English
Monastic Life by
F.A. Gasquet. (pages 234 & 241.)
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Austin Houses in England ( For more English
Religious Houses, see the index page):
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Allerton, North
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Yorks, W. R.
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Atherstone
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Warwick.
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Barnstaple
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Devon.
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Boston
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Lincoln.
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Bristol
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Somerset.
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Cambridge
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Cambridge.
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Canterbury
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Kent.
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Clare
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Suffolk.
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Cleobury Mortimer
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(see Woodhouse).
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Droitwich
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Worcester.
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Gorleston
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Suffolk.
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Grimsby
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Lincoln.
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Hull
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Yorks, E. R.
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Huntingdon
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Huntingdon.
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Leicester
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Leicester.
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Lincoln
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Lincoln.
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London
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Middlesex.
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Lynn
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Norfolk.
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Newark
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Notts.
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Newcastle-on-Tyne
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Northumberland.
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Newport
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Monmouth.
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Northhampton
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Northants.
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Norwich
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Norfolk.
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Oxford
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Oxford.
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Penrith
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Cumberland.
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Rye
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Sussex.
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Scarborough
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Yorks, N. R.
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Shrewsbury
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Salop.
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Stafford
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Stafford.
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Stamford
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Northants.
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Tavistock
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Devon.
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Thetford
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Norfolk.
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Tickhill
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Yorks, W. R.
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Walsingham
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Norfolk.
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Warrington
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Lancashire.
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Winchester
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Hants.
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Woodhouse, near Cleobury Mortimer
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Salop.
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Yarmouth,
Little
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(see Gorleston)
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Suffolk.
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York
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Yorks.
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Aconbury
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Female House (Nuns)
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Hereford.
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Buckland Minchin
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Female House (Nuns)
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Somerset.
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Campsey
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Female House (Nuns)
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Suffolk.
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Canonleigh, or Mychen Leigh
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Female House (Nuns)
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Devon.
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Cornworthy
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Female House (Nuns)
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Devon.
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Crabhouse
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Female House (Nuns)
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Norfolk.
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Flixton, South Elmham
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Female House (Nuns)
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Suffolk.
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Folkestone
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(cell of Lonley)
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Female House (Nuns)
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Kent.
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Goring
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Female House (Nuns)
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Oxford.
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Grace Dieu, Belton
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Female House (Nuns)
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Leicester.
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Harwood
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Female House (Nuns)
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Beds.
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Lacock
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Abbey
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Female House (Nuns)
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Wilts.
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Lymbrook
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Female House (Nuns)
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Hereford.
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Rothwell
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Female House (Nuns)
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Northants.
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