Snape Priory

{{Short description|Monastery in Suffolk, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Snape Priory''' was a priory in [[Suffolk]], [[England]].<ref>'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), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/suff/vol2/pp79-80 pp. 79-80] (British History Online).</ref> It was founded as a cell of the [[Order of St Benedict|Benedictine]] [[St John's Abbey, Colchester]] in [[Essex]].<ref> '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), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol2/pp93-102 pp. 93-102] (British History Online).</ref><ref>'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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BmhPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA556 pp. 556-61] (Google).</ref><ref>'19 March 1472; Pro Priore & Conventu de Snapes', T. Rymer (ed.) ''Foedera'', Vol. XI (London 1739-1745), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rymer-foedera/vol11/pp733-750 pp. 733-50] (British History Online).</ref><ref>A. Jessopp (ed.), ''Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich, A.D. 1492–1532'', Camden Society New Series XLIII (1888), [https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofdio00cathrich#page/38/mode/2up pp. 37, 69, 177] (Internet Archive).</ref><ref>''Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry IV'', Vol. I: 1399-1401 (HMSO London 1903), [https://archive.org/details/calendarpatentr16offigoog/page/n281/mode/2up pp. 271-72], [https://archive.org/details/calendarpatentr16offigoog/page/n357/mode/2up 347] (Internet Archive).</ref>

[[Thomas Wolsey|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 Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk|Thomas, Duke of Norfolk]] in 1532.<ref>Page, 'Priory of Snape', ''V.C.H.''.</ref><ref>W. Filmer-Sankey, 'The Dissolution Survey of Snape Priory', ''Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History'', XXXV Part 3 (1983), [http://suffolkinstitute.pdfsrv.co.uk/customers/Suffolk%20Institute/2014/01/10/Volume%20XXXV%20Part%203%20(1983)_The%20dissolution%20survey%20of%20Snape%20Priory%20W%20Filmer-Sankey_213%20to%20221.pdf pp. 213-21] (Society's pdf).</ref>

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