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| | Watton Priory -- paper by St. John |
 | | The Order of Sempringham, as it was called, to which is the Priory of Watton belonged, was founded about 1139, by Gilbert, rector of Sempringham and Terrington, owing to the desire of seven maidens, who lived in Sempringham; to lead the strict religious life. |
 | | The prior of Sempringham, if unable from pressure of other matters to visit the other houses, might appoint two cannon's and a lay brother as scrutators, and likewise to lettered nuns and one unlettered to visit the nuns. |
 | | At Malton some of the monastic buildings exist in and beneath a modern-looking house, and the greater part of the nave of a considerable church is standing and in use, but its plan presents nothing unusual. |
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