¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chantries
1. chantry [n] - See also: chantry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chantries
Literary usage of Chantries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Schools at the Reformation 1546-8 by Arthur Francis Leach (1896)
"Dr. Crome was nearly burnt for abusing chantries in a sermon. ... With him died
the power to seize the chantries, the power to issue a commission to enter ..."
2. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"The great, though uncertain, Number of chantries. Vast was the wealth accruing
to the crown by the dissolution of chantries. " Many a little,11 saith the ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The chantries Bill was in the main a renewal of the Act of 1545 ; but its object
was now declared to be the endowment of education, and not the defence of ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The work of suppressing and despoiling the chantries, begun by Henry VIII, ...
For the chantries were the grammar schools of the period—the incumbent ..."
Other Resources:
