ABSTRACT
Edge of East Anglia feels as remote as it has always been, and it is perhaps more lonely than in the middle ages when the Pastons ruled. Men and women came from all over England as well as from abroad to find comfort in the piece of the True Cross at Bromholm. It was then that he went to near by Bromholm, a poor, small priory to which he came in March when the wind off the sea was tearing around the bare stone buildings. Bromholm was a cell of Castle Acre which was itself a dependency of the Cluniac mother-house at Lewes. There are different miniatures at intervals among the hymns and prayers to the Holy Cross: that of the Crucifix show Christ hanging on the ‘Holy Rood of Bromholm’. In 1390 Bromholm became, like many others, denizen, that is to say, nationalized English.
