Only the little Priory of Rusper, a small Benedictine nunnery perhaps founded by one of the De Braose family before the end of the twelfth century, and the small Benedictine nunnery of Easebourne founded in the thirteenth century may be said to belong to the true Weald; of the others, such as the Abbey of Robertsbridge, the Priories of Michelham and Shulbred, the Abbeys of Otham, Bayham, and Dureford not one is really old or stands really within the true Weald.
"England of My Heart--Spring"
Edward Hutton
Religious communities, monasteries and Priories, often constructed bridges.
"Vanishing England"
P. H. Ditchfield
There is laughter in his blue eyes, which attest his pure Germanic origin, and which light up his face, one of those feudal faces such as one sees in the portraits hung upon the walls of the Priories of Malta, where plainness has race.
"Cosmopolis, Complete"
Paul Bourget Last Updated: March 3, 2009