Haliwell or Holywell Priory (various spellings) in Shoreditch

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 was a religious house near London

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. The Victoria County History

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 describes it as the priory of St. John the Baptist at Haliwell, a house of Augustinian canonesses.

Also known as Halliwell, or Halywell, it was refounded by Thomas Lovell

Thomas Lovell

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 in the sixteenth century, who was buried there. It stood in Holywell Lane on the west side of Shoreditch, and sometimes was said to be a Benedictine foundation and attributed to a Bishop of London. It was in fact set up by Robert Fitz Generan in the twelfth century.

The details for Holywell Priory in the dissolution of the monasteries

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are not well documented, but by 1539 its possessions were being removed and the prioress was pensioned off.