The London houses, except Syon and a number, chiefly, of the smaller nunneries scattered throughout the country, had a single staff of officials, steward, bailiff, auditor, receiver; their revenues were drawn from scattered rents and other profits rather than from entire manors. There seem to have been about forty houses of this type in addition to the London houses. The second group comprises the great country nunneries in the south of England, including Syon and a number of smaller houses whose revenues were reckoned under the headings of various manors each managed by its own bailiff.... The staff of Syon may be taken as an unusually complete and elaborate example of the usual system, whose principle appears worked out on a smaller scale, in the case of smaller nunneries. The nuns had in the first place what may be called a central staff, a steward at L3. 6_s._ 8_d._, a steward of the hospice at L23. 15_s._ 4_d._, a general receiver at L19. 13_s._ 4_d._ and an auditor at L8. 3_s._ 4_d._ Their lands in Middlesex were managed by their steward of Isleworth, Lord Wyndesore, whose fee was L3, a steward of courts at L1 and a bailiff at L2. 13_s._ 4_d._, who had a separate fee of 13_s._ 4_d._ as bailiff of the chapel of the Angels at Brentford. Their extensive possessions in Sussex were managed by a receiver and a steward of courts for the whole county, whose fees were L3 and L2 respectively, by four stewards for various districts with fees from L1. 6_s._ 8_d._ down to 13_s._ 4_d._ and by 13 bailiffs arranged under the stewards, of whom one received L2. 3_s._ 4_d._ and the rest from L1 to 6_s._ 8_d._ Their one manor in Cambridgeshire was managed by a steward at 13_s._ 4_d._ and a bailiff at L1. With the central staff was reckoned a receiver for Somerset, Dorset and Devon, whose fee was L6. 13_s._ 4_d._; the ladies held no temporalities in Somerset; in Dorset they had a chief steward, L1. 6_s._ 8_d._, a steward of courts, 6_s._ 8_d._, and a bailiff, 11_s._, and their large possessions in Devon were managed by two stewards (L2. 13_s._ 4_d._), two stewards of courts (13_s._ 4_d._, 6_s._ 8_d._), six bailiffs, with fees ranging from 4_s._ to L2 and an auditor, 3_s._ 4_d._ They received L100 a year from unspecified holdings in Lancashire and had there a steward of courts at L1. Their possessions in Lincolnshire were mainly spiritual, but they employed a receiver, whose fee was 13_s._ 4_d._ In Gloucestershire they had large possessions. The two chief stewards of Cheltenham received each L3. 6_s._ 8_d._ and the chief steward of Minchinhampton L2. Two stewards of courts each received L1. 6_s._ 8_d._ and the two stewards at Slaughter L1. Three bailiffs received L2. 13_s._ 4_d._, L2 and 13_s._ 4_d._, with livery. A bailiff and receiver of profits arising from the