Map

The overlays that highlight 17th century London features are approximate and derived from Wenceslaus Hollar’s maps:

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Summary

A ruined Augustinian priory, then just outside Cambridge. Only a chapel, St Andrew the Less, survived the dissolution of the monasteries.

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Terry Foreman  •  Link

Barnwell Priory was an Augustinian priory at Barnwell in Cambridgeshire, founded as a house of Canons Regular. The only surviving parts are 13th-century claustral building and remnants found in the walls, cellar and gardens of Abbey House. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar…

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References

Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.

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