Crossword-Solution: OBSERVANTS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

These kind of knaves I know which in this plainness Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends Than twenty silly-ducking observants That stretch their duties nicely.

The monks of the Charterhouse, who died the death of martyrs rather than perjure themselves, win no meed of praise from Erasmus--they were, forsooth, schoolmen; and the noble Friars-Observants who, when threatened with a living tomb in the river Thames, for the same cause, calmly replied that the road to heaven was as near by water as by land, are nothing to him, for did they not learn their theology of Duns Scotus.

Three of the most zealous and most irreproachable monastic establishments--the London Carthusians, the Richmond Observants, and the Brentford Brigittines--were inveigled or cowed into temporary submission, but later reverted to the position of More and Fisher, and suffered accordingly.

The Carthusians, Brigittines, and Observants who had been induced to give way on the question of the Oath reverted to the position of More and Fisher.

Forest was warden of a convent of Observants at Greenwich attached to the royal chapel, and having been Catherine's confessor, remained, with the majority of the friars, faithful to her interests, and fearless in the assertion of them.