Crossword-Solution: FRIARIES 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Besides the southern places mentioned in this bequest, friaries in the east, at Norwich and Ipswich, and in the west, at Hereford and Bristol, had goodly libraries.

But enough has been written to show the origin and growth of libraries among the religious both of the abbeys and the friaries.

Monasticism was at a discount, and the ranks of the religious orders were chiefly filled, the old Benedictine and Augustinian foundations by gentlemen of good family who wanted the easy life of a sort of bachelor squire, and the friaries were recruited by the sort of men who would in modern times be dissenting teachers of the lower stamp.

They met with great success, and at the founder's death the Dominicans had as many as sixty friaries in various European cities.

Mary Aldermary, were executed at Tyburn for daring to speak against the king’s marriage.(1176) The friars proved extremely obstinate, and Henry sent commissioners to seek out and suppress all those friaries that refused to submit.