24 The Fall of the Friars’ Houses and Alien Priories in Wilts, 
of thys the howse in dete iiij'. vij*. vij.1. So resteythe iiij". xviij*. viij*. yt was 
tyme to take yt for yt was to far in abominacyon I have not hard of such, thys 
howse receyveth yerly v'i. vj‘. and payethe owte xxvj*. ob. here is no led but a 
lytyll stepull I thinke nott v hundreyd, master yorke cam to me In yo". name 
by that token y' I suyd to yowe for the delyverans of a fryer y‘ I shold leve 
bothe the howse and the stuffe wt hym and so I have by Indéture as yt ys p’seyd 
both chales & other, and he shall see the detts payd.” 
He then goes on to say that he is preparing a book giving a full 
account of all the houses, and ends thus :— 
**And good my lorde yt ys pety to knowe the penury of y* howseys and I 
thynke ther kowlde no better dede be don than to set ev’y man at lyberte y' wolde 
goo / for they have no thynge to purches ther capacytes w‘ / & leve in mysery | 
All ys solde in more pte off the howseys & ther vhales chaunged into tyn or 
cop’ so y* ther ys no thynge lefte as god knowy' he [who] eu’ p’s’ve you" 
lordschype to hys hey honor 
“ You". oreter & servantt 
“RICHARD DOVERENC’.” 
Again, in a letter of the 25th July—place of writing not specified 
—he uses much the same language. He wishes to know Cromwell’s 
pleasure :— 
“What I may do w' the freers that gyffe up their howseys for ther ys so 
much penure that oder howseys be not abull to kepe them / and I se that almost 
among x howseys be not ij abull to cotynew an yere / many that I am past be 
redy to gyffe up / in.many howseys I am fayn to pay all my costes & receyve 
nev’ a peny they be so pore y‘ war a charytabull dede y‘ capacytes? was cheper 
so that freeres myght make schyfte to have them for no can gett them but p’iors 
y' sell y® covets goods or lemytors? yt w ther lemytacions purches them.” 
This tender-heartedness on Bishop Ingworth’s part seems to have 
_convineed Cromwell that he was not the right man for visitor, and 
so we find him superseded by Dr. London, a man who did not first 
visit, then report, then visit again, before suppression, but who 
visited, suppressed, sold the lease, etc., and then reported, and who 
did not continually ask questions of Cromwell, or make inconvenient 
promises to friars. 
Still Bishop Ingworth received the surrender of Marleborough, 
: ae 
Capacytes. ‘Capacities were permissions granted (for a consideration) to - 
such of the religious as were priests to serve as secular clergy. 
* Lemytors. Friars who had the sole right of begging within certain bounds 
or limits from the house. 
