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Launde Abbey (Part Two): The Cromwell Connection
"Myself for Launde鈥� wrote Thomas Cromwell. The abbey chapel shares its secrets.
Since the 1100s Launde Abbey was an Augustinian priory. But in the 1500s, at the dissolution of the monasteries, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII鈥檚 chief minister, bought Launde for 拢1500.
After visiting the priory in April 1540, he wrote in his personal journal 鈥淢yself for Launde.鈥�
The chapel at Launde holds clues to what happened next.
Reporter: Ben Jackson
Producer: Andrew Fewster
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