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newstead abbey
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HOW FAR DOES NEWSTEAD ABBEY SHOWS ITS BEGINNINGS AS AN AUGUSTINIAN PRIORY? Newstead abbey has been changed from a monastery into a house that is welcome to the public. Henry II originally built it between 1164 and 1174. Newstead was a monastery for nearly 400 years but Henry VIII closed it down in 1539 and gave to the Byron family in 1540 how sold it to the friend of the poet lord Byron Mr Thomas Wildman in 1817, after Mr Wildman's death in 1859, Mrs Wildman sold it to William Fredrick Webb in 1861. Mr Webb then died in 1899 and Newstead passed down to each of this four sons until his grandson Charles Ian Fraser where he sold it to philanthropist Sir Julien Cahn, who presented it to Nottingham corporation in 1913. I'm going to prove that Newstead was a monastery before Henry VIII closed it down. I'm going to prove...
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