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Colchester Abbey was an
Benedictine abbey in
Colchester (
Grid reference or ).
In
1120 Eudes,
steward to
William I and
Henry II, was buried there, whilst May
1157 Henry II held a trial in the Abbey concerning the right of the pope to over rule him on matters of religion.
John Ballard, an archer, captured the
archdeacon of
Paris during the latter part of the
fourteenth century. He deserted from the army before entering
Calais and smuggled his prisoner into Colchester Abbey and finally sold him in London for £50.
1523 John Rainsford was accused by
Richard Vynes, an ex-servant of the
abbot of Colchester, of committing a murder within the sanctuary of Colchester Abbey. Rainsford's answer to the evidence against him was that he'd been conversing with the victim when two men entered and killed him after a struggle in which Rainsford's efforts to protect him failed because he was unarmed at the time; not realizing the seriousness of the victims wounds, Rainsford had tried to succour him and was thus found with the body.
In
1539 Colchester abbey was
dissolved and its abbot,
Thomas Marshall, hanged outside its gates for refusing to sign it over to Henry VIII.
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