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priory dependent on Colchester Priory and, Snape (1155), dependent on Colchester
Abbey. 247
After the Conquest, in addition to more Benedictine institutions, we see the
introduction of new religious orders, like Cluniacs, Cistercians, Augustinian Canons
and the Hospitallers in England. The first Augustinian Priory Cell was Great
Bricett. 248 It was founded in the period between 1114-19 and was dependent on St
Leonard, Limoges. The Augustinian priory of Blythburgh was founded from St
Osyth, Essex before 1135. In this period, two Cluniac Houses were founded:
Mendham was founded before 1155, and Wangford was founded before 1159.
Besides these houses there were also one Cistercian and one Hospitaller house. The
Battisford Hospitallers were established around 1154 and the Cistercian abbey of
Sibton was founded in 1156. 249
After the Normans we do not see any new foundation of colleges for secular
priests. Moreover, all except one of the other existing pre-Conquest secular colleges
were transformed into monastic houses. The collegiate church at Hoxne, for
example, was granted as a cell to the monks of the new monastic cathedral chapter
of Norwich in 1101. Similarly, the college of secular priests at Clare was converted
into a Benedictine priory dependent on Bec Hellouin by Gilbert de Clare in 1090,
before being moved to Stoke by Clare. Glemsford collegiate church, in existence
before 1066, seems to have survived until 1272. 250
Relatively, there were not very many monastic institutions in eastern Suffolk
before or after the Conquest. Rumburgh, which was only a cell of St Benet’s Holme
in Norfolk, was the only monastic institution in 1066. Otherwise, there was only the
247
Knowles & Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses, pp. 61, 64-6, 68, 74, 76-7, 80, 87, 92, 264, 423,
425, 427.
248
Cartulary of Blythburgh Priory, i, p. 1.
249
Knowles & Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses, pp. 100, 103, 125, 148, 181, 301, 392.
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