Carmelite friary, London
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- "The medieval Carmelite friary in London was situated by the River Thames, a short distance to the west of its confluence with the River Fleet, and lying immediately east of the house of the Knights Templar. Although never the richest mendicant house, by the fifteenth century the Whitefriars' priory may have overtaken the other mendicants in terms of the numbers of brethren. One of the Order's centres of studies, it had a substantial and impressive library. As it housed most medieval Priors Provincial the London Whitefriars was effectively the senior Carmelite house in England, and members of the community were involved in the political and religious leadership of the country. Dr. Holder's research points out that the convent's churchyard was a popular choice of burial location, and the evidence of wills shows that large numbers of ordinary Londoners chose to be buried here in addition to members of the merchant elite and aristocracy."
The Carmelite Order (the White friars) probably set up its first English urban friary in the late 1240s, between Westminster and London, just south of Fleet Street, on a plot of land donated by Sir Richard de Grey[1]. The convent was the head of one of the English order’s four geographical ‘distinctions’ (the others being Oxford, Norwich and York), housing the Order’s provincial governor and studium generale which sent Carmelite students to Oxford, Cambridge and Paris. The library seems to have been considerable[2]
Leland In biblioteca Carmelitarum
Leland Collectanea, iv., 52-53
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Notes
- ↑ Holder, citing J. Röhrkasten, The Mendicant Houses of Medieval London, 1221–1539, Vita Regularis, 21 (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2004), pp. 51–2
- ↑ Holder cites Röhrkasten, pp. 484, 536; K. W. Humphreys, The Friars’ Libraries, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 1 (London: British Library in association with the British Academy, 1990), pp. 177–88
