St Leonard's Priory, Norwich was a priory in Norfolk, England. It was a dependent cell of Norwich Cathedral before the Reformation. In 1542, it was acquired by the Earl of Surrey and turned into the mansion of Mount Surrey.Ralph Houlbrooke, 'Refoundation and Reformation 1538–1623' in ed. by Ian Atherton, Eric Fernie, Christopher Harper-Bill and Hassell Smith, Norwich Cathedral: Church, City and Diocese, 1096–1996 (London: The Hambledon Press, 1996), p. 526 During Kett's Rebellion, 1549, it was used as to imprison the rebel's 'gentry captives'.Andy Wood, The 1549 rebellions and the making of early modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 63
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