Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. St. Denys Priory was a priory of Austin canons in the St Denys area of Southampton, Hampshire, England. In 1338 the town of Southampton was sacked and burnt by the French. The town took a long time to recover and as late as April, 1385 protection was granted to the priory of St. Denis and its possessions, because so much of its property had been burnt and destroyed that the costs of repairing the tenements and contributing to the fortification of the town had placed the priory deeply in debt and it did not have the means to pay pensions and corrodies or to maintain the canons.