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in that day. The Franciscans had a house in Salisbury, in which 
city also the Dominicans were domiciled, as well as at Wilton ; 
Marlborough held one settlement of the Carmelite, or White 
Friars; while the fourth order (that of the Austin Friars) was 
unrepresented. 
The Dominicans, friars preachers, or Black Friars, seem to have 
been the first to enter the county, and to have made their first 
settlement at Wilton, about 1245, and later to have transferred 
their chief establishment to the growing city of New Sarum, settling 
at the end of the year 1280 in Fisherton Anger, not far from 
Fisherton Bridge. 
Thither also came, probably about the same time, the Franciscans, 
friars minor, or Grey Friars: while the house of Carmelites at 
Marlborough was not founded till 1316, and then by the liberality 
of two private individuals, John Goodwin and William Remesbach, 
merchants; whereas the other two orders had been encouraged, if 
not actually founded, by king, or bishop, or local magnate, such as 
a Longespé, or Mauduit. This corresponds to what we otherwise 
learn of the homelier character of the Carmelites, who affected too, 
it seems, the smaller towns of the land. 
The same course was adopted with the friaries as with the 
monasteries. The visitatorial powers conferred by the Act of 
Supreme Head were delegated to Richard Ingworth, himself . 
formerly a Black Friar, and lately promoted to the Suffragan 
Bishopric of Dover, at the end of 1537. He at once started on 
his career of visitation (not, be it marked, necessarily and im- 
mediately one of suppression, though that was the ultimate end in 
view), and by July, 1538, writes of his progress to his employer, 
Cromwell. In the course of a long letter, dated from Marlborough, 
he says, after speaking of his visit to Chichester and Southampton :— 
* & to Salysbury how [7.e., who] also I fynde in good order and so lefte them.” 
Then, after relating his doings at Winchester} he proceeds :— 
“Now I am at Marleburche, wher befor I was but y* p’or was not at home, 
sythe he came to me to London and offeryd up hys howse. I taryed tyll y' I 
cam now hether and now I have receyvyd yt of him and his cdvéte and by y® 
_ mayer to me assygnyd ij men & have made y* Invétory & p’seyd all at ix’. vi®. iij’. 
