Elizabeth Cressener

In Kent the priory owned woods and other land as well as houses, inns, mills and chalk quarries.

In addition they owned property and controlled church advowsons in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Glamorgan, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, London, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey and Wiltshire.

[3] In her second year, Bridget of York, the King's youngest daughter, joined Dartford Priory.

[1] Bridget was dead by December 1507, when her brother-in-law King Henry VII paid for a stone to cover her grave.

[2] In 1536 the Dissolution of the Monasteries started and initially houses would be closed if they had an income under £200 a year or they were full of 'manifest sin, vicious, carnal, and abominable living' as alleged by the act empowering their closure.

In 1822 the occasion of the entry of Bridget of York into her priory was imagined in a painting by James Northcote.