Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · London : Methuen · leaf 239
st repairing now, and not even the kindly help of thatold servant and friend of the convent, Henry Smith,could avail to suggest the best way of setting aboutreparation. All the larger nunneries and probably most of thesmaller ones, to whatever Order they belonged, openedtheir doors for the… … ?•*■.>■ Him ambuunt mate piotomsj *• 3m t -0^ 3ft FRANCISCAN NUNS IN CHOIR THE NUNS 177 population, the poor as well as the rich, had in the con-vents their only schools, nuns their only teachers, in pre-Reformation times. Chaucer, in describing the well-to-domiller of Trompington, says— A wyf…
Monasteries · Monasticism and religious orders
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