Eksempler på 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.