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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Charterhouse (540 words) |
 | Bruno founded the first house of his austere order at Chartreux, near Grenoble, the institution has ever since been known by the name of that place. |
| charterhouse of Sheen in Surrey, founded in 1414 by king |
| charterhouse is its complete solitude, which has served to preserve intact in all its austerity the original |
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London - The Chaterhouse (1452 words) |
| Charterhouse was granted to that wily old courtier, Sir Edward North, in 1545, and eight years later he "conveyed "it to John Dudley, Earl of Northumberland, the father-in-law of Lady Jane Grey. |
| The brilliant days of the Charterhouse as a nobleman's mansion were at an endanother chapter was concluded and the third phase of the story was to begin. |
| The Charterhouse was founded, and for three hundred years the school has produced great Englishmen and the hospital harboured men who have found that in the evening of a working life the stars do not always appear. |
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