Brethren
Brethren noun - (plural) the lay members of a male religious order.
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Of Roman antiquities there were few; of non-Roman, post-Roman, there were fewer, where monastic and Malet interests together had given the land over to flock and sheepwalk and the lay brethren with crook and wise dog.
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