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[UK] Mercurius Britanicus 22 5–12 Feb. 172: Usually the Master, he had a wife, and a daughter, or two, and they kept a Monastery, or Nunnery in a part of the Colledge, and those were such carnall arguments to the young Scotists, and Thomists; and you will not beleeve how the Fellowes, and the young Friers would resort to the Masters lodgings, and what logick they would use to prove simple Fornication lawfull.
at nunnery, n.
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