Crossword-Solution: SECULARS 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Then out of love for him, Grosseteste left his writings or his library--it is not clear which--to the Grey Friars.[116] This gift may have formed part--it is not certain--of the two valuable hoards existing in the fifteenth century in the same friary, one the convent library, open only to graduates, the other the Schools library, for seculars living among the brethren for the sake of the teaching they could get.

And as the last years of the monasteries coincided with a renewed interest among seculars in learning and with a revival of book-collecting, the monks of all houses must have been sorely tempted to sell books which laymen coveted, as the monks of Mount Athos have been bartering away their libraries ever since the seventeenth century.

For example, in 1320, the prior and convent of Ely acknowledge receiving ten books from the executors of a rector of Balsham, who had borrowed them.[261] Some years later, at an audit of books of Christ Church, Canterbury, seventeen manuscripts--thirteen of them on law--were noted as in the hands of seculars, among whom was Edward II.[262] Lending books to brethren in the monastery was conducted according to strict rules, of which those of Lanfranc, based on the Cluniac observances, afford a good example.

Commonly minstrels formed a regular part of the household of rich men.[442] This part of the subject is so interesting that we feel tempted to linger over it, but it is sufficient for our purpose to observe that minstrelsy, before and after the Conquest--indeed, up to nearly the end of the manuscript period--was the chief and almost the only means of circulating literature among seculars.

Ferrera MAY have been the Queen’s confessor, he was ‘one of the Queen’s priests.’ In 1670 she had twenty-eight priests as chaplains; twelve were Portuguese Capuchins, six were Benedictines, two, Dominicans, and the rest seculars.** Mrs.