1538 H. Latimer Let. 6 Oct. in Serm. & Remains (1845) (modernized text) II. 403 If the kings grace..would vouchsafe to bestow the two friaries, Black and Grey, with their appurtenance, upon this his poor, ancient city.

a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 217 Not a poor loop-hole, Error could sneak by, No not the Abbess to the Friery.

1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 156 Near Guildford is the Friery.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 41 The remains of an old friary.

1884 Catholic Times 10 Oct. 4/8 The foundation-stone of the new Friary..the first of the kind established since the Reformation.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 423 A Friery or Brotherhood founded by Raph Hosiar.

1697 London Gaz. No. 3312/3 A Bill for Suppressing Fryeries was presented this day to the House of Lords.

1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. II. 216 He proposed also to found a convent, to be dedicated to the poorest friary in the Kingdom.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 272 When Iohn Milverton..began (in favour of Friery) furiously to engage against Bishops, and the Secular Clergy.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 9 A Secular Priest, betwixt whose Profession and Fryery, there was an ancient Antipathy.

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 357 This was called the Frery Cart..and had the priueledge of Sanctuary.

1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. ix. 293 It was fashionable for persons of the highest rank to bequeath their bodies to be buried in the friary churches.

1872 Daily News 22 May The Friary Chapel, where the ceremony was to be held.

1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 224 Hypocrites..which will haue these preceptes perpetuall, and builde thereon frierie and monkish superstition.