Consequently, the Protestants are wrecking "all the friaries within their bounds."
"John Knox and the Reformation"
Andrew Lang
They pull down all manner of friaries and some abbeys, which willingly receive not the reformation: as to parish churches they cleanse them of images and other monuments of idolatry and command that no masses be said in them.
"A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)"
Leopold von Ranke
These friaries were in the southern part of Oxford, and have completely perished, leaving behind only the names of two or three mean streets; but the college system which Walter de Merton founded has grown with the growth of Oxford and of England, and is to-day as vigorous and as useful as ever.
"The Charm of Oxford"
J. Wells