[1] The founder of the friary is uncertain, but it may have been a member of the Stafford Family, local landowners.
8d in the wills of Isabel de Sutton and Justice of the Peace Roger Horton.
The friars seemed to have surrendered the house willingly and an inventory of goods and chattels was taken by Richard Ingworth, Bishop of Dover.
[1] What was left of the friary was pulled down in 1644, as parts of efforts to defend the town during the Civil War.
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