St. Leonard's Priory, Norwich
St. Leonard's Priory, Norwich was a priory in Norfolk, England. It was a dependent cell of Norwich Cathedral before the Reformation. In 1542 it was acquired by the Earl of Surrey and turned into the mansion of Mount Surrey.[1] During Kett's Rebellion, 1549, it was used as to imprison the rebel's 'gentry captives'.[2]
References
- ^ Ralph Houlbrooke, 'Refoundation and Reformation 1538-1623' in ed. by Ian Atherton, Eric Fernie, Christopher Harper-Bill and Hassell Smith, Norwich Cathedral: Church, City and Diocese, 1096-1996 (London: The Hambledon Press, 1996), p. 526
- ^ Andy Wood, The 1549 rebellions and the making of early modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 63
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