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147: 170:. Sybil Kirke was the last prioress – she was granted an annual pension of £15 and allowed to retain 35 shillings 2 pence worth of Priory goods. Initially she was also granted the retention of some of the priory's demesne lands to cover her household expenses. She lived until at least 1553. 197:. In February 1539 the crown also granted Sadleir the priory's site, buildings and most of its lands, including the manor of Bromley, though initially these had all been sold to William Rolte. All that remains of the grounds of the Abbey is the parish church's small neglected churchyard. 419: 444: 439: 424: 414: 43:
It was first recorded in 1122 as an institution for nine nuns and a prioress - around the time of its Dissolution the priory's own tradition was that it had been founded by
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Most of the rest of the building's contents (such as its cattle and corn) were sold by the king's commissioners to Sir
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Initially held by Geoffrey, Earl of Essex, the lands on which the priory stood had shifted to the prior and canons of
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dialect. By this time the dialect had lost prestige and was being ridiculed as sub-standard French.
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nunnery in what is now east London, which gave its name to Bromley St Leonard (today known as
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in 1536, along with many other smaller religious house. Its books were moved to
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Former buildings and structures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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This was a barbed reference as it implied the Prioress had learned
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The priory was destroyed during the first phase of the
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Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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Christian monasteries established in the 11th century
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Index

Benedictine
Bromley-by-Bow
Maurice
Richard de Belmeis I
John Leland
William of London
William Roscelin
Earls of Hereford
of Essex
William, Earl of Henault
Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate
Geoffrey Chaucer
General Prologue
Canterbury Tales
stratford atte bowe
French
Benedictine
Anglo-Norman

Dissolution of the Monasteries
Westminster Abbey
Diocese of Westminster
a new parish church
Ralph Sadleir
Sutton House
Homerton
privy councillor
Henry VIII
Lord Chancellor
"Bromley-by-Bow - Hidden London"

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