Mettingham College
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Mettingham College in Suffolk
, England
was a community of secular canons responsible for the board and education of a small number of male scholars for just under a century. Founded on 24 July, 1350 it was finally closed in 1542 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
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Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
was a community of secular canons responsible for the board and education of a small number of male scholars for just under a century. Founded on 24 July, 1350 it was finally closed in 1542 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Dissolution of the Monasteries
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their...
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