Lexicographical Neighbors of Covents
Literary usage of Covents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of the Reports of Cases, the Statutes, and Ecclesiastical Laws by Francis King Eagle, Edward Younge (1826)
"... and also his majesty will ordain and provide, that the covents of every such
religious house shall have their capacities, if they will, to live honestly ..."
2. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Sir Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"... that the chief governors and covents of such honourable great monasteries
shall take and accept into their houses, from time to time, such number of the ..."
3. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1763)
"... That the chief governors and covents of fuch honourable great ... in like
manner and form as the covents of fuch great ..."
4. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"... were translated or founded by king Henry \\ e eighth, in place of abbots and
covents, or priors and covents whit h were chapters whiles they stood; ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Of Franciscans, forty Provinces devided into Warden-ships, covents, and Places;
the persons innumerable, conjectured threescore thousand. ..."
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