West Mersea Priory

West Mersea Priory was a Benedictine priory in West Mersea, Essex, England.

It was founded in 1046 and granted by Edward the Confessor to the Abbey of Saint-Ouen in Rouen.

As an alien priory it was taken by Henry V who granted it in 1422 to Henry Chichele, archbishop of Canterbury, for his college at Higham Ferrers.

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