Snape Priory was a priory in
Suffolk,
England
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. It was founded as a cell of the
Benedictine
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, motto = (English: 'Pray and Work')
, foun ...
St John's Abbey, Colchester in
Essex
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.
Cardinal Wolsey obtained a
Papal Bull for the suppression of this house in 1527–28, towards his foundation of
The King's School, Ipswich. After Wolsey's attainder and fall, the priory site and its possessions were granted to
Thomas, Duke of Norfolk in 1532.
[W. Filmer-Sankey, 'The Dissolution Survey of Snape Priory', ''Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History'', XXXV Part 3 (1983)]
pp. 213-21
(Society's pdf).
References
Monasteries in Suffolk
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