It stood just to the north of an older royal foundation, the Hospital and Collegiate Church of St Katharine by the Tower.
Among the abbey's endowments was the reversion of one of the four manors of Shere in Gomshall, Surrey, given by King Edward III in 1350.
[4] Crash Mills were situated on the River Thames, near East Smithfield.
[5] The Abbey's benefactors were mainly courtiers; it attracted relatively few bequests from the merchants of the City of London.
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