ars ( fVcrc, brother) were mendicant orders in the Roman Catholicchurch. Of these there were several varieties, or brotherhoods, such as thewhite, gray, black, etc., and some of them went barefooted. I do not knowto which of the above this hall belonged. They were in fact a set of mendicant… … W- ■M ^THE CHURCH ALMS HOUSE. This is probabh the oldest, or at all events one of the oldest, housesnow to be found in Boston. It stands on Wormgate Street, opposite St.Botolphs Church, and is reputed to have been built before the church. Before the establishment of poorhouses in England there were…
Architecture, United States: New England
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