Brewer's: Alien Priory

(An). A priory which owes allegiance to another priory. A sub-priory, like Rufford Abbey, Notts, which was under the prior of Rievaux in Yorkshire.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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