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Haliwell or Holywell Priory (various spellings) was a religious house in Shoreditch formerly in Middlesex and now in the London Borough of Hackney. The Victoria County History for Middlesex describes it as the priory of St. John the Baptist at Haliwell a house of Augustinian canonesses.Also known as Halliwell or Halywell it was refounded by Thomas Lovell in the sixteenth century who was buried there.