A History of the County of Chester: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1980.
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A P Baggs, Ann J Kettle, S J Lander, A T Thacker, David Wardle, 'Friaries: The Friars of the Sack', in A History of the County of Chester: Volume 3, ed. C R Elrington, B E Harris( London, 1980), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol3/p178 [accessed 5 December 2024].
A P Baggs, Ann J Kettle, S J Lander, A T Thacker, David Wardle, 'Friaries: The Friars of the Sack', in A History of the County of Chester: Volume 3. Edited by C R Elrington, B E Harris( London, 1980), British History Online, accessed December 5, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol3/p178.
A P Baggs, Ann J Kettle, S J Lander, A T Thacker, David Wardle. "Friaries: The Friars of the Sack". A History of the County of Chester: Volume 3. Ed. C R Elrington, B E Harris(London, 1980), , British History Online. Web. 5 December 2024. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol3/p178.
THE FRIARS OF THE SACK
Acommunity of Friars of Penitence of Jesus Christ, popularly known as Friars of the Sack, was established at Chester before 1274 when the Council of Lyons condemned the order to gradual extinction. (fn. 1) The Chester community is the most recently identified and still the most obscure of the sixteen foundations of the order in England. (fn. 2) In 1277 Edward I sent the community 5s. for food and at that date it seems to have been larger than that of the Carmelites. (fn. 3) When the next royal donations were made in 1284, the Friars of the Sack received four payments totalling £1 13s. 4d., considerably less than the other three communities of friars. (fn. 4) Only one other benefaction is known: Joan, the widow of Geoffrey de Dutton, bequeathed 4s. to fratribus indutis saccis. (fn. 5) Nothing further is known of the community's history and it probably died out before 1300.