By Rev. C. F. R. Palmer. 



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[spiritualis] multorum existens, feliciter vitam consummavit, a.d. 

 1458 : cui propieietur Deus. Amen/' He died May 10th. 1 



William, Lord Botreaux, who died in 1462, by will dated July 

 20th, 1415, bequeathed 40<?. to the friars at Salisbury. 2 



Adam Inwys, a wealthy trader, left legacies to the church-fabrics 

 of the friar-preachers of Win ton and Sarum. 3 



Leland visited the library of this convent about the year 1536, 

 and notes that he found here : 

 Quodlibeta Nicolai Triveti. 

 Leo papa, de conflictu vitiorum et virtutum. 

 Historia Britannica mediocri carmine scripta a Bruto ad 

 Caduualadrum, incerto autore, sed qui secutus est Galfredum 

 Monemutensem. 4 

 The destruction of this religious house was now at hand. F. 

 Richard Ingworth, suffragan bishop of Dover, being the king's 

 visitor for subjecting the mendicant friars to the royal supremacy, 

 and eventually for their suppression, came to Salisbury in the month 

 of July, 1538, and about the 25th, wrote to Lord Cromwell, that 

 he found the friar-minors of Southampton and the friars of Salisbury 

 " in good order, & so lefte them." 5 But their compliance did not 

 save them. At the beginning of October following, the suffragan- 

 bishop again appeared, and to him, on the 2nd, the prior and thirteen 

 friars surrendered their house. 



« jy/[d » Yj e ye pi or £ co ' ue 't; 0 f ye blacke fryers of Salysbury, w* one assent 

 and co'sent, w* owte any man' of coaccyon or co'sell, do gyue ow r howse In to y e 

 hands of y e lorde vysytor, to y e kynges vse, desyerynge hys grace to be good & 

 gracyous to vs. In wyttenes] we subscrybe ow r namys w t ow r p'per hands, the 

 ij th day of October, In y e xxxxte yere of y e raygne of ow r most dred sou'eyn lorde ? 

 kynge he'ry y e viij th . 



1 Obituarium Conventus Guldefordite : Tanner's MSS. in Bodleian Library. 



2 Nicolas' Testamenta Vetusta, vol. i., p. 191. 

 3 Hoare, p. 96. 



4 Leland's Collectanea (1760), vol. iv., p. 67. 

 6 Miscellaneous Letters, temp. Hen. VIII., series 2, vol. lxxxiv., No. 132. 



