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“Gareth’s blood,” said Mordred, “is not to be paid for by chantries, we think—however much it might pleasure the Bishop of Rochester.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

But his happiest paragraphs are like flamboyant chantries, not imposing, not quite supreme in quality, but in their own kind showing wonderful perfection of craftsmanship.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George

An act of the last reign granting the king all chantries and gilds was enlarged and enforced with cruel injustice to the poor.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various

In addition there were the numerous chantries, which existed in connection with so very many churches in the country, and for each of which one or two priests would be required.

From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William

Hutchins enumerates nearly a dozen little churches and numerous chantries that once had their station at Shaftesbury, clustering around the Monastery, the major portion of which seem now to have disappeared.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton