 (e.g., Lewes Priory was a daughter of Cluny of Paris and answered to the abbot of that great French house).Owing to the fairly constant state of war between England and France in the Late Middle Ages, successive English governments had objected to money going overseas to France from these Alien Priories, as the hostile French king might get hold of it.They also objected to foreign prelates having jurisdiction over English monasteries.