Francis Gasquet - English Monastic Life

He must, in a word, “study with paternal solicitude the character, actions, and needs of all the brethren; never forgetting that he will one day have to render to God an account of them all.”

The prior, or second superior of the house, is above all things concerned with the observance and internal discipline of the monastery. He is appointed by the abbot after hearing the opinions of the seniors. Sometimes, as at Westminster and St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, he was chosen with great deliberation. In the first place, three names were selected by the precentor and by each of the two divisions of the house, the abbot’s side of the choir and the prior’s side. These selected names were then considered by a committee of three appointed by the abbot, who reported their opinion to him. Finally, the abbot appointed whom he pleased.

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Texts and Studies, Cambridge , vol. vi., No. 1, p. 233.

Ibid.

Ibid. , p. 234.

Ibid. , p. 235.

Ibid. , p. 236.

Ibid. , p. 247.

Ibid. , p. 256.

The Celtic Church of Wales , J. J. Willis Bund, p. 166.