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(Harl. 221) 18 Awmebry, or awmery, elemosinarium, rogatorium.
?1476 W. Caxton (single sheet) Late hym come to Westmonester in to the almonesrye [sic] at the reed pale.
1577 R. Holinshed II. 887/1 They burnt certaine houses belonging to the Aumenerie [1587 Almonrie].
1603 R. Niccols sig. B4v These persons heer-after named, came in their place and order [in the procession for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth]... Messengers of the Chamber. Children, of the Almondry... Then folowed Groomes, being: Wheat-porters... Cart-takers. Of the Almonry.
1693 W. Robertson (new ed.) 185 An Aumbry or almonry, where the Almoner lives; Eleemosynarium.
1719 6 Aug. The Truth whereof may be certified by Mrs Sarah Davis in the Great Almonry near Westminster Abby.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in IV. 379 An almonry or alms-house for the reception of indigent children.
1773 Sept. 453/2 The Almery or Ambry, to the south of Tothill-street, where the alms of the abbey is said to have been distributed formerly.
1799 H. Wood IV. 43 [He] held, by lease dated the twenty-first of June 1771, all his parsonage or almery of Northbourne, &c.
1803 J. Pickersgill IV. xi. 300 I have instituted an almonry, to which you may have daily access by shewing this ticket.
1859 J. E. Tennent I. iii. xi. 407 The king erected almonries at the four gates of the capital.
1885 13 44 In 1213 a house for converts..was built near the almery of Bermondsey Priory.
1930 C. R. Haines iv. 173 A position for the almonry between the kitchen and gatehouse was a convenient one for the distribution of alms and victuals to the poor.
1991 S. K. Penman (1992) iv. 46 The nuns..peeping surreptitiously from the windows of frater, infirmary, and almonry.
2007 R. Wade xvii. 176 She came to the house that was now used by the choir school but had once been the site of the old almonry.