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Definition of Freers
1. freer [n] - See also: freer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freers
Literary usage of Freers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Times of Sir Peter Carew: Kt., (from the Original Manuscript,) by John Hooker, John Maclean (1857)
"2 We can find no trace of freers. There was a Grammar School at St. John's Hospital,
at Exeter, before the present one. This hospital suffered the same fate ..."
2. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1913)
"To be buried " in the Whyte freers church before Saint Katerin. I will that ther
shall be a Whyte frer syng for me att Seint ..."
3. North Country Wills: Being Abstracts of Wills Relating to the Counties of by John William Clay, Surtees Society (1908)
"To the freers Minors aforsaid a crosse of silver and gilt with Mary and John and
our Lady at the foote of the crosse. ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"But lo ! the Devil turn'd his era» about, And twenty thoi sand freers wend in
and out. ... rhyming it appears, The Devil's belly is the hive of freers. ..."
5. Testamenta Eboracensia: Or, Wills Registered at York Illustrative of the by James Raine, John William Clay (1884)
"Aliso I will that the Whyt freers and Grey freers in ... and the said freers and
preste to have ij d. that day, & so to chaunge daly frome preste to preste ..."
6. Testamenta Eboracensia Or Wills Registered at York: Or, Wills Registered at by James Raine, John William Clay (1884)
"Aliso I will that the Whyt freers and Grey freers in ... to recompense them
satisfac- torie but only by prayers ; and the said freers and preste to have ij ..."
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