According to the Observances of the augustinian Priory at Barnwell, Cambridge, each brother was compelled to be bled seven times a year.
"English Villages"
P. H. Ditchfield
The same principle which sent Saul of Tarsus to be trained at the feet of Gamaliel, and made Luther a monk in the augustinian convent at Erfurt, planted Moses in Pharaoh's palace and taught him the wisdom of Egypt, against which he was to contend.
"Expositions of Holy Scripture Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers"
Alexander Maclaren
It consisted of a small community of augustinian canons; its site was described about 140 years later as "a very poor and waste place of the commonalty of Cambridge."
"St. John's College, Cambridge"
Robert Forsyth Scott