Whilst the date of foundation is not known for certain, the friary was in existence by at least July 1277, when records show Edward I, then resident in nearby Eccleshall, sent alms of 6s 8d for "one day's food in the ensuing week".
[1] Sometime between 1351 and 1361, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, whose duchy held the rights to the property, released the friars from their annual rent of 3s 9d and awarded them a grant of land to extend the house.
Despite this close Lancastrian connection, this is no evidence to suggest the friars were involved politically with the faction during the ensuing Wars of the Roses.
By this point the friary was in a poor state, being described by Richard Ingworth, Bishop of Dover as "all in ruin and a poor house, the choir leaded and the cloister lead ready to fall down, the rest slate and shingle".
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