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10. Ivyohuroh, fivo inmates, £133 0$. 7d. income. 



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

 few years previously boon appropriated to Hinton 

 Charterhouse.] 



Of Austin Canonesses : — 



11. Laeock, seventeen inmates, £2(Y<) 12s. 3d. income. 



To these we must add : — 



12. The "Hospital" of EdingtonSthirteen inmates, £52 1 I2s.5d. 



income. 



1). — Of White Canons, or Premonstratcnsians, there are no 

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



13. Easton, two inmates, £55 14s. b/. income. 



E. — Of the only order of native origin, that of tin 4 ( Jilbertines, 

 j 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 2d. income. 



15. Marlborough S. Margaret, five inmat es, £38 1 9s. 2c?. income. 



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

 hundred and seventy-one inmates, and £41SiJ 19s. 9d. annual 

 income. 2 



It has generally been thought that the visitation of monasteries 

 began with the universities (for they were considered religious 

 foundations), in October, 1585, but the letters which I shall quote 

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

 England (tho first record I can find boing at Worcester, July 8 1 si). 

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

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

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

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

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



1 Tho only houso in England of that branch of Austin Canons called " Bon- 

 hommcs." 



Tho yearly values arc mostly taken from the Monasticon, the number of 

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

 Appendix A. 



