Alice Baldwin (abbess)

[9] The document of surrender, dated 19 September 1539, was signed by Alice Baldwin, as Abbess, and the nine remaining nuns who were still living there at the time.

[11] After the surrender she appears to have spent her remaining years at Aylesbury at the home of her father, Sir John Baldwin, who both by deed and in his will left her well provided for with a life estate in his lands.

[13][2] Sir John Baldwin had been buried in Aylesbury Church,[2] and in her will Alice requested that her executor erect a tomb of marble over his grave with figures depicting her father and mother and their children.

It appears that Alice's executor, Richard Cupper (d.1584), carried out this request, although no trace of the monument now remains in Aylesbury Church.

[20][21] After passing through various hands, the former Abbey was sold in 1916 to a contemplative religious order, and four centuries after its surrender again became the home of a community of nuns.