. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ntedSt Kertenn to be his fucceiTor, he refigned this go-vernment, and went to Armagh, where he founded hiscelebrated abbey. On the 20th of April 1396, adreadful fire burnt to the ground the church, the iwochapels, the abbey, the court of the bifliops, andthirty-two other buildings, with all the facerdotalveftments, nienfils, &:c. belonging to the billiopschapter and church. In the year
. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ntedSt Kertenn to be his fucceiTor, he refigned this go-vernment, and went to Armagh, where he founded hiscelebrated abbey. On the 20th of April 1396, adreadful fire burnt to the ground the church, the iwochapels, the abbey, the court of the bifliops, andthirty-two other buildings, with all the facerdotalveftments, nienfils, &:c. belonging to the billiopschapter and church. In the year 1610, on the 241I1of July, whilft George Montgomery was bilhop ofClogher, king James annexed this abbey and its reve-nues to that fee. The fee (valued in the kings booksat 35ol/>fr aiinvvi by extent returned 15th Jamesl.)is reputed to be worth annually. W. 30. N. Lat. J4. 16. CLOISTER, (Clauflruvi) a habitation furroimdedwith walls, and inhabited by canons or religious, & a more general fenfe, cloifter is ufed for a mo-nallery of religious of cither fex. In a more reftrain-td fenfe, clciiter is ufed for. the principal part of a re-gular. Cledks I Cloifier. CLOCK CXIJ. « ^ ./z/ja:/^:/ C L O [ 77 ] C L O ClonnicU galar moiufteiy, coidiiUiig of a fqiuix biiik around ;Clofe. ordinarily between the church, the thapter-houfe, and V the rcfeftor/ ; and over which is tlie donuitory. Thecloillers ferVcd for fcveralpurpofes in the ancient mo-nafleries. Petrus Blefenlis oblerves, that it was herethe monks held their lectures : the lecture of morali-ty at the north lide, next the church ; the fchool onthe well, and the chapter on the call ; fpiritiial medi-tation, &c. being referved for the church. Lanfrancobfervcs, that the proper ufe of the cloiftcr was forthe monks to meet in, and convcrfc together, at cer-tain hoars of the day. The form of the cloiller was fquare ; and it had itsname da a ft mm, from , I Unit or dole ; asbeiuo- iiiclofed on its four
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