Charter House: the house of the Carthusian monks.
Temple: once the house of the Templars, an order of knights whose duty it was to protect the Holy Sepulchre.
part of the church ... still to be seen: at Clerkenwell the gate of the priory of St. John's is still standing.
[27. MONKS, FRIARS, AND NUNS.]
Indiscriminately: without making any distinctions between them.
hermit, from the Greek, and solitary, from the Latin, mean the same thing—one who retires from the world and lives in a lonely place.
Monte Casino, in Campania, near Naples, where St. Benedict established his monastery in 529 A.D.
St. Benedict is often shortened to Benet, as in the name of several London churches.
austerities: severe rules of life and conduct.