He had an equally high-handed way with the monasteries in his diocese and in his filet year as bishop deposed no fewer than eleven abbots and priors. |
This man has no priors, who has been a contributing worker throughout his life, finds himself in the dock charged with a very serious offence. |
Friaries were occupied by friars, abbeys were headed by abbots, priories by priors. |
Abbots were the spiritual heads of the larger monasteries, with priors in charge of smaller or daughter houses. |
Until the Reformation, the spiritual peerage also included abbots and priors, and spiritual peers formed a majority of the House of Lords. |
I want to look Jason up on LEAP, see whether he's got any priors we might like to know about. |