 This change corresponded with ideas of a reformed future for monastic communities that had been a subject of debate and speculation amongst some leading Benedictine abbots for several decades; and sympathetic voices were being heard from a number of quarters in the late summer of 1538.The Lord Chancellor, Thomas Audley proposed Colchester and St Osyth's Priory as a possible future college.Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk, and Lord Treasurer proposed Thetford Priory; making extensive preparations to adopt statutes similar to those from Stoke-by-Clare, and expending substantial sums into moving shrines, relics and architectural fittings from the dissolved Castle Acre Priory into Thetford priory church.