The Priory of St Osyth, Augustinian priory
Dates: founded as an Augustinian house about 1120; surrendered July 1539
Biography
An Augustinian priory in Essex that held extensive estates in Suffolk and Essex, including the separate Denham Abbots estate until the Dissolution.
Notes / Sources
The institutional holder is evidenced by the confirmation deeds and by medieval royal calendar references to the abbot's manor of Denham.
Research sources:
- S. H. A. Hervey, Denham Parish Registers, 1539-1850, historical chapter "Denham Abbots," pp. 172-174, citing Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, VI, p. 310. — https://archive.org/stream/denhamparishregi01denh/denhamparishregi01denh_djvu.txt
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