PRECEPTORIES.—Whenever the Knights Templars, or Hospitallers, had any considerable manors or farms, they erected a church for the service of God, and built a convenient house of habitation, to which they sent out their fraternity, under the command of a Preceptor. CHANTRIES were chapels erected and endowed for the singing of masses for the souls of the deceased. Chantry rents are still paid to the Crown by the purchaser of their lands. HOSPITALS were small convents, occupied by a few monks, for the entertainment of all who went any pilgrimage on religious pretence. GUILDS were societies of lay brethren, who lived together like monks, but were of no professed order. THE GREY FRIARS were at first called _Franciscans_, from the name of their founder, St. Francis: they were likewise called _Minorites_, from their being the lowest and most humble of all orders; and _Observants_, from their great strictness to the rules of their order. They were styled mendicants, from their professing wilful poverty, subsisting chiefly upon alms, which they used to ask from door to door, by which they were distinguished from monks, who kept at home within their convents, and lived in common upon their substance. Their habit was a long grey coat down to their heels, with a cowl or hood, and a cord about their loins, instead of a girdle. Many privileges were granted them, and many of high degree were ambitious of living, dying, and being interred in the habit of these Franciscans. The _Black Friars_, so called from their habit, a black cope and cowl over a white coat, were likewise called _Dominicans_, from their having been founded by St. Dominick; and black preaching friars, because they were the only preachers of all the friars. These monks obtained extensive grants of land, and had many persons of note within their convents. The _White Friars_ took their name from the dress they wore. They came into England in 1325, and first settled at Canterbury.