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3 unusual facts about Pontefract Priory


Pontefract Priory

This attempt to regard the earl as a martyr aroused the anger of Edward II of England, who impounded the offerings (Rymer, Foedera, II, ii, 726).

These donations were finally confirmed to the monastery by a Bull of Pope Celestine (whether II or III is uncertain), which also conferred certain ecclesiastical privileges on the priory.

William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, V (London, 1846), 118-31;



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