CHAPTER IX.

THE DESOLATION OF THE COUNTRY.

Vacant livings in diocese of Salisbury — In Dorset and Wilts — Ivychurch priory — Manors ruined by plague — Somerset parsonages — Court roll of Gillingham, Dorset — Stockton, Wilts — Chedzoy, Bridgwater — Carthusians of Hinton and Witham — Exeter diocese — Lydford — North Cornwall — The Black Prince and his tenants — Essex benefices — Lands vacant — Rents lowered — Colchester wills — Talkeley priory — Chesthunt nunnery — Anglesey priory — Kent — Sussex — Hants — Isle of Wight — Surrey — Winchester cathedral priory — Hyde abbey — Nuns of St. Mary's abbey — of Romsey — Decrease among the mendicant friars of Winchester diocese — Debts at the cathedral — At Christchurch — Sandown hospital — Shireborne priory — Hayling Island — Taxation — Gloucester — Lantony priory — Horsleigh cell — Warwickshire — Wappenbury — Whitchurch — Bruerne abbey — St. Frideswide's at Oxford — Barlings 162-193