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On this page you will find links to some of the information regarding mendicant orders on the web, as well as information from Abbot Gasquet's book English Monastic Life. Gasquet published the book through The Antiquaries Book series in 1904.  It is now out of print and not generally available.  There may be a number of factual errors in the text, or points on which historians or theologians do not agree.    Gasquet's text, notes & links>>
           

Austin Friar
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The Friars

      The friars differed from the monks in certain ways.  The brethren by their profession were bound, not to any locality or house, but to the province, which usually consisted of the entire number of houses in a country.  They did not, consequently, form individual families in their various establishments, like the monks in their monasteries.  They also, at first, professed the strictest poverty, not being allowed to possess even corporate property like the monastic Orders.  They were by their profession mendicants, living on alms, and only holding the mere buildings in whey they dwelt. 

The Lesser Friars

Austin Friars, or Hermits

      The body of Austin Friars took its historical origin in the union of several existing bodies of friars effected in A.D. 1265 by Pope Clement IV.  They were regarded as belonging to the ranks of the mendicant friars and not to the Monastic Order.  They were very widely spread, and in Europe in the sixteenth century they are said to have possessed three thousand convents, in which were thirty thousand friars ; besides three hundred convents of nuns.  In England at the time of the dissolution they had some thirty-two friaries.

   English Monastic Life by F.A. Gasquet.  (pages 234 & 241.)


Austin Houses in England
( For more English Religious Houses, see the index page):


Allerton, North

 

 

Yorks, W. R.

Atherstone

 

 

Warwick.

Barnstaple

 

 

Devon.

Boston

 

 

Lincoln.

Bristol

 

 

Somerset.

Cambridge

 

 

Cambridge.

Canterbury

 

 

Kent.

Clare

 

 

Suffolk.

Cleobury Mortimer

 

(see Woodhouse).

 

Droitwich

 

 

Worcester.

Gorleston

 

 

Suffolk.

Grimsby

 

 

Lincoln.

Hull

 

 

Yorks, E. R.

Huntingdon      

 

 

Huntingdon.

Leicester

 

 

Leicester.

Lincoln

 

 

Lincoln.

London

 

 

Middlesex.

Lynn

 

 

Norfolk.

Newark

 

 

Notts.

Newcastle-on-Tyne

 

 

Northumberland.

Newport

 

 

Monmouth.

Northhampton

 

 

Northants.

Norwich

 

 

Norfolk.

Oxford

 

 

Oxford.

Penrith

 

 

Cumberland.

Rye

 

 

Sussex.

Scarborough

 

 

Yorks, N. R.

Shrewsbury

 

 

Salop.

Stafford

 

 

Stafford.

Stamford

 

 

Northants.

Tavistock

 

 

Devon.

Thetford

 

 

Norfolk.

Tickhill

 

 

Yorks, W. R.

Walsingham

 

 

Norfolk.

Warrington

 

 

Lancashire.

Winchester

 

 

Hants.

Woodhouse, near Cleobury Mortimer

 

 

Salop.

Yarmouth, Little 

 

(see Gorleston)

Suffolk.

York

 

 

Yorks.

Aconbury

 

Female House (Nuns)

Hereford.

Buckland Minchin

 

Female House (Nuns)

Somerset.

Campsey

 

Female House (Nuns)

Suffolk.

Canonleigh, or Mychen Leigh

 

Female House (Nuns)

Devon.

Cornworthy

 

Female House (Nuns)

Devon.

Crabhouse

 

Female House (Nuns)

Norfolk.

Flixton, South Elmham

 

Female House (Nuns)

Suffolk.

Folkestone  

(cell of Lonley)

Female House (Nuns)

Kent.

Goring

 

Female House (Nuns)

Oxford.

Grace Dieu, Belton

 

Female House (Nuns)

Leicester.

Harwood

 

Female House (Nuns)

Beds.

Lacock

Abbey

Female House (Nuns)

Wilts.

Lymbrook

 

Female House (Nuns)

Hereford.

Rothwell

 

Female House (Nuns)

Northants.




Austin Links:

 
Homepage for the Order of St. Augustine, or OSA.

Website for Clare Priory in England.

'Friaries: Austin friars, Cambridge', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 2 (1948), pp. 287-90.  From British History Online.

Friar, an article from Newadvent.org



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