Austin Friars

He has a house in Stepney but tonight he is going to his city house at the Austin Friars.

Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall' Mantel, Hilary 2008

In all his twenty-one years he has never had bad dreams; sleeping securely under the Cromwell roof since he was seven, first at Fenchurch Street and now at the Austin Friars, he has grown up with a tidy mind, and his nighttime worries are all rational ones: thieves, loose dogs, sudden holes in the road.

Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall' Mantel, Hilary 2008

They did try, notwithstanding, and never left off trying until they got to Austin Friars, where, in a very dark passage on the first floor, oddly situated at the back of a house, across some leads, they found a little blear – eyed glass door up in one corner, with MR. FIPS painted on it in characters which were meant to be transparent.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

Castro, who had violated his _parole d'honneur_, and the Provincial of the Austin Friars, who had joined the rebel party.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

He was condemned to abjure or be burnt; and preferring the former alternative, was committed to the Fleet prison and afterwards to the Austin Friars in London.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

BARNES, ROBERT (1495-1540), English reformer and martyr, born about 1495, was educated at Cambridge, where he was a member, and afterwards prior of the convent of Austin Friars, and graduated D.D. in 1523.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

The Austin Friars may have owned a library before 1364, when two of their number left the London house, taking with them books and other goods. 3.34 Early in the fifteenth century a library was built and a large addition was made to the books of this house by Prior Lowe, a friar afterwards occupying the sees of St. Asaph and of Rochester. 3.35 At this time the friars of London were specially fortunate.

Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

Next, he provided for the Austin Friars, and bought them a grange belonging to a burgher of Paris, with all its appurtenances, outside the gate of Montmartre, and had it turned into a monastery for them.

The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville 1906

Denbigh; and the Austin Friars at Newport in Monmouthshire.

Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures 1904

Now on the very day of Farrell's death, Dr. Morrison called and asked for him at the offices in Austin Friars.

The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Percy James Brebner 1893