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reached the island, with a small priory on the left and a
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They spent one night in a decrepit little priory that
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been a priory, but its ambitions in the early days were
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We seemed to be the only guests at the Priory guest house although the house had three floors and the landlady told us that she often had eight people staying there, especially when the Flower Show was on during August
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“We’re staying at the Priory guest house
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Charles Priory at Oceanside to spend some time in prayer and meditation
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The Priory Of Sion
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or Priory Of
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about this Priory thing?” quizzed Shoop
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arm’s length until he could figure out the whole Priory of Sion thing
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caretaker for the Priory Of Sion museum
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members of the Priory Of Sion, an organisation that had apparently kept itself
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the Priory Of Sion and any related organisations
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“Wel ,” interjected Dr Komodo, “to start with, it looks like this Priory Of Sion
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that the strange hugging men, Mr Jeeves and Bunty were al part of the Priory Of
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Sphere Of Influence and the Priory Of Sion, none of them could afford to be seen
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said that I’d found out that the Priory Of Sion could be two thousand years old
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“The thing is that, as I’ve said before, the Priory Of Sion seems to have
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Members of the Priory Of Sion made there
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They received their Priory seals with much reverence
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Shoop recognised it as the triangle from the Priory Of
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‘Wel that’s where organisations like the Sphere of Influence and the Priory
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the Priory of Sion
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Leonardo Da Vinci, himself is, alleged to have been a former grand master of the Priory of Sion
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Brown tells readers that the priory is a real organisation founded in 1099 and that secret documents found in Paris’s Bibliotheque Nationale reveal that its members have included Leonardo, scientist Isaac Newton, novelist Victor Hugo and the painter, Botticelli
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We will walk to the farm at the edge of the down, and see how the children go on; we will walk to Sir John's new plantations at Barton Cross, and the Abbeyland; and we will often go the old ruins of the Priory, and try to trace its foundations as far as we are told they once reached
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The cathedral chimes had at once a sadder and a more remote sound to me, as I hurried on avoiding observation, than they had ever had before; so, the swell of the old organ was borne to my ears like funeral music; and the rooks, as they hovered about the gray tower and swung in the bare high trees of the priory garden, seemed to call to me that the place was changed, and that Estella was gone out of it for ever
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Caris stopped outside a big house on the main street, just opposite the entrance to the priory precincts
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“And the priory gets my lands,”he said
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She would have become a priest, had she been a man, but as it was she had done the next best thing and brought up her son, Godwyn, to be a monk at the priory
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“Then run to the priory and beg her to come,” Papa said
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“I’ve been at the priory ten years,” he said
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Kingsbridge Priory maintained a branch or cell in the city, known as Kingsbridge College, where eight monks
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The priory pays for the other three, but we can’t
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Godwyn knew the priory was in financial difficulties
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“Physicians bring money in to the priory,” he argued
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will die and the priory will be poorer
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The cloisters, and all the other priory buildings, were to the south of the church
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“Sir Thomas wishes to become a monk here at the priory
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Anthony said: “The priory is too poor to take on any more monks – unless there were to be a gift that would pay the costs
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They returned to the main street and found Ma, Philemon and the baby at the Bell inn, next to the priory gates
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All this rain eventually passed into the river on the southern boundary of the priory grounds
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“In the monastery library there is a history of the priory, called Timothy’ s Book, that tells all about the building of the cathedral
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If the boy is right, it could save the priory a lot of money
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have a cathedral or a priory, it boasted the sheriff’s castle and the county court
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Elfric, like most of the leading citizens, lived on the main street that ran from the bridge up to the priory gates
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In those days, the priory precincts had not been large enough to contain the fair, and the streets all around had been obstructed by unlicensed stalls – often just a small table covered with trinkets –plus hawkers with trays, jugglers, fortune tellers, musicians, and itinerant friars calling sinners to redemption
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Legend said that the king had given Kingsbridge Priory the twenty-four best oak trees in England to build the three central pairs of piers
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Anthony said: “When the priory was new, its only income came from that bridge
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He returned to the priory and wandered through the fair
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Between the river and the wall of the priory grounds there was a wide bank, covered at this time of year with
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It was a history of Kingsbridge Priory and, like most such histories, it began with the creation by God of heaven and earth
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On his return to the priory, he had found it disturbing to see nuns so frequently
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It was even worse to encounter girls from the town, with their close-fitting clothes and alluring hairstyles, casually walking through the priory grounds on everyday errands, bringing supplies to the kitchen or visiting the hospital
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Clearly, he thought, the priory had fallen from Philip ’s high standards - another example of the slackness that had crept in under the rule of Anthony, Godwyn’ s uncle
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Godwyn’ s mind was equally restless, distracted from his prayers by thoughts of how he could best use Timothy’s Book to inspire a revival in the priory
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Thomas turned to William, and something in his stance reminded Godwyn that Thomas had once been a knight, and had first arrived at the priory bleeding from the sword wound that had eventually necessitated the amputation of his left arm at the elbow
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The argument ten years ago had resulted in Thomas’s joining the priory
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In all that time, no one at the priory seemed to have learned much about Thomas’ s former life
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“But it’ s not unknown for the priory to waive the donation in the case of an applicant who shows devotion
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And you’ve been a servant of the priory, paid and unpaid, for years
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“Welcome to Kingsbridge Priory!”
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He had returned from Oxford a year ago, and he had been quietly talking to people about reforming the priory ever since; but, until this moment, he had not openly confronted Anthony
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“The nunnery could be removed to another location, and become a remote cell of the priory, like Kingsbridge College, or St-John-in-the-Forest
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The priory did business constantly with merchants, buying food, cloth, shoes, parchment, candles, garden tools, tack for
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Nevertheless it was wise to be discreet, and he made sure he was not observed as he left the priory
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They passed through the priory gates into the wide fairground
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His family were too well off to claim poverty, so they could not stay free at the priory
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Joby was near the priory gates, outside the Bell
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Caris waved to a monk who came out of the priory gates
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“The priory has jurisdiction over all bargains agreed at the Fleece Fair,” she said
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THE PRIORY HAD a string of ponies for the senior monks and nuns to use when travelling, plus some carthorses for transporting goods
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Ralph had not seen the man since that day, but his brother Merthin had, for the knight-become-monk was now responsible for supervising repairs to the priory buildings
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They passed out through the priory gates
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TO THE SOUTH of the priory, the ground sloped steeply down to the river
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She had a row of small bouses on one side of her – the suburban homes of people too poor to live in the city –and, on the other side, the pasture called Lovers’ Field, owned by the priory
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Instead, they had gone to the priory to say goodbye to Ralph
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But the houses on this side of the main street had gardens that backed up against the priory walls; and the house on the corner, belonging to Ben Wheeler, had a small door in the wall so that he could come to the river directly from his garden
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She passed through the priory gates into the main street
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He let her lead him into the priory precincts without withdrawing his hand
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He longed for a new regime at the priory: a stricter interpretation of Benedict’s rule, along with meticulous management of the finances
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“Go to the priory and get two monks to bring a stretcher
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” The two men went up the steps and into the priory grounds
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For some years he had been looking forward to the end of Priory
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matricularius at the priory
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They turned into the priory close
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formed the piers – they’re probably the famous twenty-four best oak trees in the land, given to the priory by
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“You’ d better prepare an estimate of the cost for the priory
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It was true that Merthin’s parents were poor corrodiaries, dependent on the priory for their food and drink
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They walked up the street and entered the priory
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Clearly it had not occurred to him that the long-term consequences of the bridge collapse could actually affect the status of the priory
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But Simeon said: “If the priory can’t afford to build a wooden bridge, there’ s certainly no prospect of a stone
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the money and lend it to the priory against the security of the bridge tolls
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“The time may come, in the future, when the priory is able to build a new bridge
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to the hospital, and send a novice or a priory servant to seek me out, in the usual way
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right thing with no help from the powerful priory
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“Who paid for his admission to the priory?”
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He ate it standing up, while around him the priory servants brought the breakfast bowls back from the refectory and scrubbed out the iron pot in which the porridge had been cooked
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The nearest was a deed dated some weeks later in which Earl Roland gave permission to Sir Gerald to transfer his lands to the ownership of the priory, in exchange for which the priory would forgive Gerald’ s debts and support him and his wife for the rest of their lives
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The deed assigned the vacant lordship to Kingsbridge Priory, and specified the annual dues – grain, fleeces, calves and chickens - payable to the priory by the serfs and tenants who farmed the land
