[f. FRIAR sb. + -Y2; see the earlier FRARY.]
1. A convent of friars.
1538. Latimer, Lett. to Cromwell, 6 Oct., Rem. (Parker Soc.), 403. If the king’s grace … would vouchsafe to bestow the two friaries, Black and Grey, with their appurtenance, upon this his poor ancient city.
a. 1659. Cleveland, Wks. (1687), 217.
| Not a poor loop-hole, Error could sneak by, | |
| No not the Abbess to the Friery. |
1759. B. Martin, Nat. Hist. Eng., I. 156. Near Guildford is the Friery (upon the River Wey) adjoining to which was formerly a large Park.
1814. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 122. It was bounded on one side by the remains of an old friary.
1884. Catholic Times, 10 Oct., 4/8. The foundation-stone of the new Friary … the first of the kind established since the Reformation.
2. A fraternity or brotherhood of friars.
1631. J. Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments, 423. A Friery or Brotherhood founded by Raph Hosiar.
1697. Lond. Gaz., No. 3312/3. A Bill for Suppressing Fryeries was presented this day to the House of Lords.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., II. 216. He [King John the fifth] proposed also to found a convent, to be dedicated to the poorest friary in the Kingdom.
† 3. The institution or practices of friars. Obs.
1655. Fuller, The Church-History of Britain, VI. 272. When John Milverton his Successour, began (in favour of Friery) furiously to engage against Bishops and the Secular Clergy, the Carmelites good masters and dames began to forsake them. Ibid. (a. 1661), Worthies, IV. (1662), 9. He [Nicholas Hereford] was bred Doctor of Divinity in Oxford, and a Secular Priest, betwixt whose Profession and Fryery, there was an ancient Antipathy.
4. attrib. (of or pertaining to a friary or friaries), as friary-cart, -chapel, -church.
1598. Stow, Surv., 357. This was called the Frery Cart, which belonged to S. Iohns, and had the priueledge of Sanctuarie.
1774. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poet., I. ix. 293. It was fashionable for persons of the highest rank to bequeath their bodies to be buried in the friary churches.
1872. Daily News, 22 May. The Friary Chapel, where the ceremony was to be held.
