. with thirty two illustrations and two maps . tine abbey of St John Baptist, founded byEudo Dapifer in 1096. The abbot of this housewas one of the twenty-eight mitred abbots whowere summoned to Parliament. Queen Catharineof Aragon rested here in i 5 16, when on pilgrim-age to Our Lady of Walsingham. The end ofthis house was one of the many positive crimesthat stain the memory of Henry VIIL and hisagents. Thomas Beche, the last abbot, was hungand mutilated at Colchester on ist December1539, for alleged traitorous language, and thehouse and its possessions passed to the crownthrough hi
. with thirty two illustrations and two maps . tine abbey of St John Baptist, founded byEudo Dapifer in 1096. The abbot of this housewas one of the twenty-eight mitred abbots whowere summoned to Parliament. Queen Catharineof Aragon rested here in i 5 16, when on pilgrim-age to Our Lady of Walsingham. The end ofthis house was one of the many positive crimesthat stain the memory of Henry VIIL and hisagents. Thomas Beche, the last abbot, was hungand mutilated at Colchester on ist December1539, for alleged traitorous language, and thehouse and its possessions passed to the crownthrough his attainder. The fine gateway, c. 141 5,and parts of the walls are all that remain of thisonce great monastery. The next most importanthouse was the priory of St Botolph, founded by a priest named Ernulph. It was thefirst English house of Austin Canons. Therewas much jealousy between the abbey and priory ;this led, in the middle of the 14th cent., to aserious street riot. Their disputes were at lasthealed by a reference to Pope Urban V. The 130. COLCHEvSTER priory was returned as not worth much more thanj^ioo a year, and hence was dissolved with thesmaller monasteries in 1536. The remains of theconventual church of this priory are picturesqueand valuable, consisting of the west front and partof the walls of the nave, erected by Normanbuilders, entirely out of Roman materials. Thewest front has three portals, the centre one recedingin five orders. A double tier of interesting brickarches rises above the portals. The Grey Friarswere established at Colchester some time before1279, when Edward I. granted them licence tomake an underground conduit through his demesnelands and the town wall. Their house was suppressedin 1538; it stood nearly opposite to the churchof St James ; not a vestige remains. The Crossedor Crutched Friars had a house here in the timeof Henry III., but it was chiefly a hospital for poorneedy men. Parts of the buildings were afterwardsused as a workhouse,
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