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Owners of Hinchingbrooke House:
Hinchingbrooke House was a nunnery from 1200-1538. However, towards the end it became dissolved as there were not many nuns left and so Richard Cromwell (nephew of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex), bought the house in 1538. He was knighted in 1537 which brought him an income of £2500 per year. He began to work on the architectural side of Hinchingbrooke, but he passed the house to his oldest son, Henry Cromwell in 1545, and died two years later. Work on the house stopped, then picked up again in 1558. Henry Cromwell died in 1604,