By the Rev. W. G. Clark -Max we 11. 



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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 Groodwin 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 Longespe, or Mauduit. This corresponds to what we otherwise 

 learn of the homelier character of the Carmelites, avIio affected too, 

 it seems, the smaller towns of the land. 



The same course was adopted with the friaries as with the 

 monasteries. The visitatorial jiowers 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 .[i.e., who] also I fynde iu good order and so lefte them." 



Then, after relating his doings at Winchester, lie proceeds : — 



" Now I am at Marleburche, wher befor I was but y c p'or was not at home, 

 sythe he came to me to Londou and ofFeryd up hys howsc. I taryed tyll y* I 

 cam now hether and no"w I have receyvyd yt of him and his covete and by y° 

 mayer to me assyguyd ij men & have made y e Invetory & p'seyd all al \' \ i\ irj d . 



