have been just beyond the Western Gate of Leicester's old town walls. The friary was closed before 1295. There is a record of another house in Bishop's Lynn. Walter Bette of South Clenchwarton, and Catherine his wife, made a grant to 'the brothers of penitence of Jesus Christ' of land with buildings in North Lynn. Queen Eleanor took the "Sac-Friars" under her protection and gave them land and a building on Colechurch Street in the City of London, in the parish of St Olave's Church. Other houses were in Cambridge (1258), Norwich (1266), Newcastle (1272), and Lincoln. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the house in Canterbury was given to the city. References Independent Augustinian communities 1276 establishments in Europe Roman Catholic friars History of Catholic religious orders Christian religious orders established in the 13th century 1541 disestablishments in Europe