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Alien priory
Priory Pri"o*ry, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See Prior, n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot. Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country. Syn: See Cloister.

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- Alien priories were religious establishments in England, such as monasteries and convents, which were under the control of another religious house outside...
- were at war, lands belonging to the alien priory of Saint Mary of Lire, at Evreux, in Normandy. When Wareham Priory was lost, soon after Henry's accession...
- Marjorie M. Morgan, The Suppression of the Alien Priories, in History NS 26, 103 (1941) 204, 208 Alien houses: Priory of Blakenham, in William Page(ed.), A...
- other alien priories it was eventually given its independence from Bec in 1409 by the quasi-naturalisation process known as denization. The priory was finally...
- Winchester, secured both papal and royal authority to acquire the lands of alien priories for his colleges, and in the following year he obtained from Richard...
- as well as praying for his soul. During the French wars in 1414 the Alien Priories Act was signed by King Henry V which confiscated into the king's hands...
- Longville Priory was an alien priory in Newton Longville, Buckinghamshire, England. It was established in the 1150s and was dissolved in 1441. The priory of...
- this occasion, at their request, the money due to the king from the alien priory of Harmondsworth was ****igned to them in part payment. Edward III seems...
- own right (e.g., Lewes Priory was a daughter of Cluny and answered to the abbot of the French house). The royal transfer of alien monastic estates to educational...
- (originally buried here) Alien priory John Bramis Wangford Priory List of monastic houses in Norfolk List of abbeys and priories in England Austin Friars...