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The Cluniac Order
The Cluniac Order was founded by a Benedictine called Odo who believed
that the strict rule of St. Benedict was not being followed. He founded
the abbey of Cluny in 910. In this order the daughter houses were all
dependant on Cluny itself for their funds and any money the daughter house
received had to be sent back to Cluny. When Cluny started using its
funds to increase its own grandeur its daughter houses suffered and
popularity of the order began to wane. Monks in this Order dedicated so
much time to prayer that they had to employ workers to tend the fields and
gardens.
The Carthusian Order
The Carthusians were founded in 1084 by Saint Bruno a La Chartreuse and
were descended from the Benedictines. In
England their houses were known as Charter-houses. The Rule that these
monks followed was possibly the most strict of all the orders. Being a
Carthusian monk meant that the ideal of leaving the world behind when
entering a monastery was taken literally. Each monk lived in solitude
in a small cell where he did his own cooking and slept. He had a small
area of garden in which to grow food and only meet his fellow monks once
a week. As the life was so strict and the order did not communicate with
the outside world the number of abbeys remained less than ten in number.
Only two Carthusian houses were founded before the middle of the fourteenth
centrury, those being Wilton, Nottinghamshire, in around 1180 and Hinton, Somerset, in around 1227.
Augustinian Canons
The Augustinians were not monks like the Benedictines or Cistercians but were canons.
Canons were
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Selected Augustinian
abbeys in Britain
Bolton Priory
Bourn Priory
Bridlington Priory
Brinkburn Priory
Cartmel Priory
Christchurch Priory
Colchester Priory
Dorchester Priory
Dunstable Priory
Haughmond Priory
Hexham Priory
Kirkham Priory
Lanetcost Priory
Lilleshall Abbey
Llanthony Priory
Maxstike Priory
Newstead Priory
Norton Priory
Porchester Priory
Portsmouth Priory
St. Botolph's Priory
St. Osyths Priory
Thornton Priory
Walsingham Priory
Waltham Priory (Abbey ??)
Wigmore Prioty
Woodspring Priory
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