Snape Priory Explained
Snape Priory was a priory in Suffolk, England.[1] It was founded as a cell of the Benedictine St John's Abbey, Colchester in Essex.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
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.[7] [8]
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Notes and References
- 'Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Snape', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Suffolk, Vol. 2 (V.C.H., London 1975), pp. 79-80 (British History Online).
- 'Houses of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Colchester', in W. Page and J.H. Round (eds), A History of the County of Essex, Vol. 2 (V.C.H., London 1907), pp. 93-102 (British History Online).
- 'Snape Priory', in W. Dugdale (rev. J. Caley, H. Ellis and B. Bandinel), Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbeys and other Monasteries (&c.), New Edition (T.G. March, London 1849), IV, pp. 556-61 (Google).
- '19 March 1472; Pro Priore & Conventu de Snapes', T. Rymer (ed.) Foedera, Vol. XI (London 1739-1745), pp. 733-50 (British History Online).
- A. Jessopp (ed.), Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich, A.D. 1492–1532, Camden Society New Series XLIII (1888), pp. 37, 69, 177 (Internet Archive).
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry IV, Vol. I: 1399-1401 (HMSO London 1903), pp. 271-72, 347 (Internet Archive).
- Page, 'Priory of Snape', V.C.H..
- 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).
