Perhaps Southwark was a female community before the conquest; by 1066 it is a male monastery of the Augustinian order.
Joannis Lelandi antiquarii De rebus britannicis collectanea, vol. 1, 106.
A Survey of London, vol. 2, 56.
Veiled Women, vol. 1, and vol. 2, 181-182.
Knowles mentions men only at Southwark. Foot raises the possibility that the Mary mentioned by John Stow could have been a vowess living on her own small inheritance rather than a community of religious women. There are no medieval references for this community.
BOSBQ = Benedictine/Augustinian