Town in Bedfordshire, England, founded on the site of a Romano-British village (Durocobrivre) on Watling Street by Henry I who also endowed the Augustinian priory (1131). Here Cranmer held the court which in 1533 pronounced the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon invalid.
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