Felley Priory

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Felley Priory had been an Augustinian religious community. In 1539, following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII, the priory’s land was granted to William Bolles, but he did not hold them for long. As Mary I sold the land to Sir Anthony Strelley. Again the old priory's Felley property reverted to the Crown, James I letting it to Anthony Millington and his heirs. The Millingtons made it their family seat. It became the home of Gilbert Millington, Anthony's son. A member of the Long Parliament and Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1642 when the civil war broke out between Charles I and Parliament, he was marked out for punishment by the Royalists who seized and sacked his home at Felley. Millington was one of those who signed the king's death warrant, for which at the Restoration he was condemned to death along with other regicides. However, he was spared the gallows and spent the rest of his life in captivity on Jersey until he died in 1676.
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