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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Just for fun then, lets see if anyone can find a tradition in Warwick that was granted before the reign of King Edward III?
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Oh, yes he loved his candy floss...
THE PRIORY OF ST. SEPULCHRE, WARWICK
On the north side of the town of Warwick, on the site of a former parochial church of St. Helen, Henry de Newburgh, the first earl of Warwick after the Conquest, began, in the year 1109, to erect the priory of St. Sepulchre, the occasion thereof being, by the recourse of diverse pilgrims in great devotion to the Holy Land (the Christians prevailing much about that time) who solicited the earl to erect a monastery, in imitation of those canons regular there instituted in the church of the Holy Sepulchre of our Blessed Saviour; which canons used the like habits that other regular canons did, adding only a double red cross upon the breast of their cope, this being the first house of that peculiar order, either in England, Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. (fn. 1)
From: 'Houses of Austin canons: St Sepulchre, Warwick', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 2 (1908), pp. 97-99. URL:
Houses of Austin canons - St Sepulchre, Warwick | British History Online. Date accessed: 22 October 2007.