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The Fraternity of St Anne was so much feared as a wealthy agency supporting "superstitious uses" that in the last year of Henry VIII and the first year of Edward VI two Acts were passed which suppressed all such fraternities, and, conveniently, appropriated their property to the Crown. The Fraternity of St Anne was dissolved in 1547 and their building in Grosvenor Park was purchased by Sir Hugh Cholmondeley and converted into his town house (destroyed in the Civil War). As noted by Lysons, the land at Flookersbrook was held by the Massey family of Kelsall prior to 1450 and later passed to the Bruens of Tarvin and the Sneyds before being bought by Sir Lawrence Smith of Hough, 1516–82 (1st MP for Chester 1545). He built the first Flookersbrook Hall, slightly to the north of the present Hall, which remained in that family until just after the Civil War.
Smith was apparently a good-hearted fellow: the History of Parliament online<ref>[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/smith-sir-lawrence-1516-82 The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981]</ref> states that he paid for:
* '''"the annual painting of the city’s four giants, one unicorn, one dromedary, one luce [pike], one camel, one ass, one dragon, six hobby-horses and six naked boys"'''
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