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Lived In A Tomb For Two Years | Bridgetown Priory

Bridgetown Priory was founded sometime after 1202 and before 1216 on land donated to the Augustinians by Alexander fitz Hugh. It was colonized with monks from Newtown Abbey, in County Meath. It was dedicated to Saint Mary of the Bridge. It is likely that around 1219 fitz Hugh's lands and his patronage of the church passed to the Roches of Castletownroche, through the marriage of Synolda fitz Hugh. The monks owned land on either side of the river, and two timber bridges existed to allow them to cross, neither of which are extant today, though foundation stones are still visible on the south bank of the river. In a Henrician survey, the value of Bridgetown priory was considered to be among the most valuable in the diocese, second only to that of the Cistercian priory at Abbeymahon.Following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII, Bridgetown was officially dissolved between 1540 and 1541.Following dissolution, the monastery was finally suppressed in 1546.By this point the priory, consisting of "a church with belfry, dormitory, hall, buttery, kitchen, cloister, and cellar, wit divers [sic] other chambers", was in ruinous condition. Sources differ in their account of what happened next: According to one account, the priory was surrendered to Sir Henry Sidney between 1576 and 1577, and was abandoned shortly afterwards - sometime between 1585 and 1600.These reports continue to claim that in 1595 Bridgetown was granted to Lodowick Bryskett, secretary to the Lord President of Munster to hold for fifty years - though by 1614, a survey carried by William Lyon, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, found that the priory was jointly owned by Lord Roche and Sir Daniel O'Brien. According to a contradictory account, the Roches reclaimed the monastery in 1577, with it remaining under their control until 1592, and during this time the monks remained resident in the priory. By this account, the priory was seized by Sir Robert Cecil, before a Ladowich Brysketh (presumably the same person as Ludovick Briskett in the other account) was granted the priory and its lands in 1592. In 1597, the priory was supposedly bought by Edmund Spenser as a gift for his son.Spenser might have acquired it from Bryskett, who was a very old friend of his. #history #grave #strange #cemetery