Sir Thomas Audley was given the lands of Walden Abbey by Henry VIII, and adapted the abbey buildings as his mansion.
His grandson Thomas, first Earl of Suffolk, rebuilt this mansion between 1610 and 1614. The new Audley End was truly palatial in scale, but Suffolk fell from power after 1618.
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