Mr. J. H. Round, however, has discovered that the date of the Foundation has been placed too early, and that the founder was not Jordan Briset at all, but a certain person identified as the younger son of a Domesday under-tenant, who had himself founded the Priories of Bricett for Austin Friars and of Stanegate for Cluniac Monks. Both this House and the Priory of St. John adjacent were founded, in Mr. Round’s view, about the year 1145. The value of the House at the surrender was, according to Dugdale, £262: 19: 0; according to Speed, £282: 16: 5. In the _Calendar of Wills_ there is not a single bequest to the nuns of this House. Isabella, the last prioress, was a daughter of Sir Richard Sackville. She furnishes another instance tending to prove that the monasteries and nunneries had fallen into the hands of the noble and gentle families. She received a pension of fifty pounds a year on the Dissolution; she died in 1569, and was buried in her own church. The site of the House was given to the Duke of Norfolk, who exchanged it with the King for another place. Then Walter Henley and John Williams, knights, got a grant of it. It passed through many hands during the next hundred years. Among others, it was possessed by Sir Thomas Challoner, tutor to Prince Henry, son of James the First. He built a spacious house within the Close of the Priory, on the front of which he engraved the following lines, a rare tribute to the memory of the departed Sisters:— “Casta Fides superest, velare tecta Sorores Ista relagatæ deseruere licet: Nam venerandus Hymen his vota jugalia servet, Vestalemque focum mente fovere studet.” Thus Englished by Fuller:— “Chaste Faith still stays behind though hence be flown Those veyled nuns who here before did rest: For reverend marriage wedlock vows doth own, And sacred flames keep here in loyal brest.” [Illustration: ANCIENT CLOISTERS IN CLERKENWELL] Some remains of the cloisters were standing in 1785. They were figured in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_ for that year. The Church of St. James was originally the choir of the nunnery, and was made a Parish Church on the Dissolution.