 After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, the Crown granted the priory to John de Vere (1482–1540), 15th Earl of Oxford on 22 July 1536.The surviving tombs at Colne, some with effigies, were removed from the house now existing on the site (the house is also called Colne Priory) in the 1930s to St Stephen's Chapel near Bures, Suffolk, where they are now.A late 12th-century cartulary exists.