chantries

For the chantries were the grammar schools of the period -- the incumbent

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

A careful man, he is too discreet to inquire about my doubts—after all, it is my husband who owns the chapel and the living and pays for the chantries and masses in the church; but he gives me ten Hail Marys and an hour on my knees in remorseful prayer.

The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect...

Strange Bedfellows Lemon Hound 2009

Lyk, ich am a woman of businesse, ich am an actresse, ich do inspyre men of chivalrie to noble deedes, ich do founde chantries ful of preestes who praye for the soule of my chihuahua who of late did perisshe.

A more "interesting" meme than usual... intertext 2006

Hal promises to re-inter Richard II's body and endow two chantries so that priests can sing masses in perpetuity for Richard's soul (4.1).

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Of the remaining chantries on the south side, the first contains the

A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild

There are four _Sepulchral Brasses_ on the floor of the chantries.

A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild

Other tablets in the chantries commemorate various members of the College.

A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild

In the fourteenth century this custom greatly increased, and small additional side aisles and transepts were often annexed to churches and called mortuary chapels; these were used indeed as chantries, but they were more independent in their constitution, and in general more ample in their endowments.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See C. King Eley

At the Reformation, its chantries were dissolved, and the order of priests expelled about the year 1536.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 Various