The 25 misericords date from 1440, and are of an exceptional quality, they also include a representation of the Green man which may follow the legend of the priory's foundation.

There are various legends associated with the site, including ones relating to the priory's bells being in the river.

In 1559 the executors of Sir John Port's will purchased from the Thacker family, for £ 37. 10s (£ 37. 50 ), the land which had once housed a twelfth-century Augustinian Priory, and the accompanying buildings which had survived Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries and subsequent upheavals, namely, the Guest Chamber and Prior's Lodging ( which as the Old Priory currently houses the School Library and Common Room ), Overton's Tower ( now part of School House ), the Tithe Barn, and the Arch, which is all that now remains of the priory's original gatehouse and which helped inspire the School's motto: porta vacat culpa.

The monks of Birkenhead Priory operated a ferry service until the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the priory's destruction by Henry VIII's troops in 1536.

The parish served by the church is an extremely ancient one ; it existed as early as 1108, when it was served by the Augustinian Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, which was also known as Christ Church, which was founded by Maud, queen at the time of King Henry I The site of the present church was originally the priory's churchyard and it is possible that the church had its origins in a cemetery chapel.

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1541 the priory's endowment went towards the foundation of a free grammar school, King Henry VIII Grammar School, the site itself passing to the Gunter family.

By 1535 the priory's possessions were worth £ 185 19s.

Guisborough was well-established at the time of the priory's founding ; the town's name refers to the fortified place of a Scandinavian called Gigr, who may have taken over a site established by the Anglo-Saxons or Romans who lived in the vicinity before the arrival of Vikings in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The canons leased, bought and sold land and loanied money using property grants as collateral to benefit the priory's building fund.

They petitioned the king to grant them the advowsons of the parish churches of Barnham, Easington and Heslerton, and in 1309 and 1311 the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Durham rewarded the priory's donors with indulgences granting remission of temporal punishment for sins.

The priory's lands were reduced in value by the raids, diminishing its income.

The priory's dissolution was not welcomed by locals, who derived economic benefit from its presence – in 1536, around 500 families depended on it for their livelihood.

John Walker Ord, a local historian in the mid-19th century, described how the priory's stonework could be seen in many buildings around Guisborough.

The priory's wealth became the stuff of local legends, one of which claimed an underground passage led from the priory to a cave under the hills in which a raven stood guard over a chest of gold.

The priory's lands around Guisborough became the source of wealth for the Chaloners.

The priory once housed the Brus cenotaph, a memorial to the priory's founding family erected in 1521.

Most of the parts were recovered and reassembled in the 19th century, and the reconstructed cenotaph is displayed in Saint Nicholas ' Church next to the priory's ruins.

It is believed there was a Saxon settlement in the vicinity as late Saxon potsherds and an 8th-century coin have been found buried under the remains of the priory's west nave.

An unusual feature of the church was a well, sunk into the nave, possibly built in an effort to safeguard the priory's water supplies.

It is unclear whether the cell was ever actually built, as Scarth is not mentioned in the priory's deeds or in Henry VIII's commissioners ' valuation of the priory's property.

The priory's poor finances were improved in 1404 by a Papal indulgence obtained by Adam of Usk, who was buried beside the priory altar ; there is a brass monument to him in the church.

A subset of the Grand Council is the Honours and Awards Committee, which considers all recommendations for appointment or promotion into the grade of Bailiff or Dame Grand Cross, appointment or promotion into any grade of a person not resident within any priory's territory, and advises the Grand Council in respect of the award of the Life-Saving Medal and Service Medal.

The Custumale Roffense dates from around 1300 and gives ( in Latin ) information about the priory's income and domestic arrangements.

The Commission shall notify all claimants of the approval or denial of their claims, stating the reasons and grounds therefor, and if approved, shall notify such claimants of the amount for which such claims are approved.

The grounds for the Church's position are Scriptural ( Old Testament ), the teachings of the fathers and doctors of the early Church, the unbroken tradition of nineteen centuries, the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical authority and the natural law.

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In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

In England the grounds used are The Oval ( since 1880 ), Old Trafford ( 1884 ), Lord's ( 1884 ), Trent Bridge ( 1899 ), Headingley ( 1899 ) and Edgbaston ( 1902 ).

The islands ' many caves, such as those at Chalis Ek are nesting grounds for the Edible-nest Swiftlet, whose nests are prized in China for bird's nest soup.

The lighthouse and its grounds are New South Wales territory, but cut off from the rest of the state by the strip of ACT land.

It connects the Kurfürstliches Schloss with the Poppelsdorfer Schloss, a palace that was built as a resort for the prince-electors in the first half of the 18th century, and whose grounds are now a botanical garden ( the Botanischer Garten Bonn ).

This is not a rejection of existence by Gilson, a leading modern metaphysician in the classical tradition: " philosophers are wholly justified in taking existence for granted ... and in never mentioning it again ...." In Gilson's view, the participial being is a given, a primitive of experience, not subject to proof or investigation, as it is the grounds of proof.

The 10 grounds are:

Chapters 4-10 contain a series of oracles, or prophetic sermons, showing exactly why God is rejecting the Northern Kingdom ( what the grounds are for the divorce ).

At Scottish football stadiums, containers such as thermos flasks are banned by law, so Bovril is purchased inside the grounds where it is served in polystyrene or plastic cups.

In 1999, John Earman and Jesús Mosterín published a thorough critical review of inflationary cosmology, concluding that “ we do not think that there are, as yet, good grounds for admitting any of the models of inflation into the standard core of cosmology ”.

G. E. M. Anscombe objects to consequentialism on the grounds that it does not provide guidance in what one ought to do because there is no distinction between consequences that are foreseen and those that are intended ( see Principle of double effect ).

They are located on the grounds of The Kings of Wessex School, together with a 14th century chapel dedicated to St. Columbanus.

For the acceptance of the hypothesis, there are, as we have suggested, quite compelling grounds.

The Austrian Supreme Court, in a recent judgment, has confirmed the legal admissibility of these lawsuits under the condition that all claims are essentially based on the same grounds.

A memorial to the 271 POWs ( mostly seamen ) who are buried in the prison grounds has been erected.

The estate and surrounding grounds are open to the public, upholding Henry's stepdaughter Katherine's wish to use the house and property for " educational, civic, social and recreational purposes.

There are good grounds for the association between hares ( later termed Easter bunnies ) and eggs, through folklore confusion between hares ' forms ( where they raise their young ) and plovers ' nests.

Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete ( there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds ) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays.

Because a phocid mother's feeding grounds are often hundreds of kilometers from the breeding site, she must fast while lactating.

Where trade barriers are raised on the disputed grounds of public health and safety, the WTO refer the dispute to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was founded in 1962 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization.