Contoh priory

• Some of the additional sources of income earned by these priory servants can be identified.

• The scope of this diversity is clearly shown in the type of work undertaken by these individuals for the priory.

• The appointment of monastic bishops had long been an aim of priory chapters, although they had rarely succeeded.

• All possible eventualities, including the bishop's absence from the country and a lack of suitable candidates from within the priory, were accounted for.

• Practical affairs are often mentioned, including loans and their repayment, marriage, burial rights, alien priories, transfers from one religious house to another, buildings and gifts.

• The first three houses were abbeys, the last a priory.

• On other occasions, a regular employee, acting in the capacity of contractor for the priory, recruited casual labourers as and when necessary.

• The close links with the government can be seen in the types of people recruited to the cathedral priory.

• These doubts are all related to the larger question whether the degree of occupational flexibility undermines the notion of a career structure for priory employees.

• Given the number of employees in these work teams, this was clearly the normal work experience for an employee of the priory.

• As already noted, tithe-collectors in the various priory vills were usually regular officials who were paid expenses for the extra seasonal work.

• This permits the investigation of a number of basic questions pertaining to the characteristics of employment on the priory estates.

• Gubion and his colleagues were uncharacteristic of the priory's employees to the extent that they were employed so many times.

• Meanwhile, most priory employees were wageearners, though modes of payment varied.

• However, one theme that emerges from these acta is the often acrimonious relationship between the bishop and the cathedral priory.