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10. Ivychurch, five inmates, £133 Os. 7cl. income. 



[Longleat, a very small foundation of this order, had a 

 few years previously heen appropriated to Hinton 

 Charterhouse.] 



Of Austin Canonesses : — 



11. Lacock, seventeen inmates, £203 12s. 3nf. income. 



To these we must add : — 



12. The "Hospital" of Edingtoni,thirteeninmates,£521 12s.5d. 



income. 



D. — Of White Canons, or Premonstratensians, there are no 

 Wiltshire examples, but we have a house of Trinitarian Canons at: — 



13. Easton, two inmates, £55 14s. 4:d. income. 



E. — Of the only order of native origin, that of the Gilbertines, 

 originally intended for men and women in the same house, but by 

 this time almost all male foundations, there are two houses : — 



14. Poulton, three inmates, £20 3s. 2d. income. 



15. Marlborough S. Margaret, five inmates, £38 19s. 2(/. income. 



Giving a total for the county of fifteen religious houses, one 

 himdred and seventy-one inmates, and £4183 19s. 9d. annual 

 income.^ 



It has generally been thought that the visitation of monasteries 

 began with the universities (for they were considered religious 

 foimdations), in October, 1535, but the letters which I shall quote 

 prove quite evidently that it began in a small way in the West of 

 England (the first record I can find being at Worcester, July 31st). 

 The reason for this is perhaps that the King seems to have been 

 engaged upon a royal progress in these parts at that time, and 

 Drs. Layton and Legh, the two chief visitors, were sent out on 

 trial, as it were, in the neighbourhood, to see whether they could 

 obtain the kind of report that was needed. When this was made 



' The only house in England of that branch of Austin Canons called " Bon- 

 hommes." 



- The yearly values are mostly taken from the Monasticon, the number of 

 inmates being gathered from the pension lists and the report mentioned in 

 Appendix A. 



