 | 1875 - 400 pagina’s
...taught to work and to read English, and sometimes Latin also. All monasteries were, in effect, great hospitals, and were most of them obliged to relieve many poor people every day. They were likewise housesof entertainment for almost all travellers. They were great ornaments to the... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1899 - 444 pagina’s
...gentlemen's daughters were educated in those places. Thirdly, all the monasteries were, in effect, great hospitals, and were most of them obliged to relieve many poor people every day. There were likewise houses of entertainment for almost all travellers. Even the nobility and gentry,... | |
 | Edward T. Clarke - 1901 - 330 pagina’s
...ACCOUNT 103 daughters, were educated in these places. Thirdly, all the monasteries were in effect great hospitals, and were most of them obliged to relieve many poor people every day ; they were likewise houses of entertainment for almost all travellers. Even the nobility and gentry,... | |
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There were likewise houses of entertainment for almost all travellers. Even the nobility and gentry, when they were upon the road, lodged at one religious house and dined at another, and seldom or never went to inns. 
