The third part of the campaign of 1538 was directed against the friars. These, it will be remembered, had been the first to be taken in hand and sworn in to support the new regime in 1534; they had lost their independence as separate orders and had been placed under two nominees of Cromwell. They had, however, not fallen under the jurisdiction of the visitors of 1535 and had not figured in the Act of Suppression of 1536. They had little property and no treasure, and their dissolution, which brought very little revenue to the Court of Augmentations, was part of the process, begun already by Cromwell and urged on by the supporters of the new religion, of ‘cleaning up’ after the severance from Rome. Unlike the monks, the friars were, however loosely, centralized upon the papacy; they had now no point d'appui and could only be a nuisance. Accordingly, from February 1538, onwards, they were dealt with by Richard Ingworth, sometime prior provincial of the Dominicans and now suffragan bishop of Dover, who received his commission as visitor of the four orders of friars on 6 February. When he first appears on his rounds in Cromwell's correspondence, it is already 23 May 1538 and he is at Gloucester, having passed from Northampton by way of Coventry into the Severn basin. ‘In every place is poverty’, he writes, and the friars are using every shift to raise money by selling jewels and leases.