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noisy tumultuous huntings; or to keep any hounds, by them- 
selves or by others, openly or by stealth, within the convent, 
or without.* 
In Item 12th he forbids the canons in office to make their 
business a plea for not attending the service of the choir; since by 
these means either divine worship is neglected or their brother 
canons are over-burdened. 
By Item 14th we are informed that the original number of canons 
at the priory of Selborne was fourteen; but that at this visitation 
they were found to be let down to eleven. The visitor therefore 
strongly and earnestly enjoins them that, with all due speed 
and .diligence, they should proceed to the election of proper 
persons to fill up the vacancies, under pain of the greater 
excommunication. 
In Item 17th the prior and canons are accused of suffering, 
through neglect, notorious dilapidations to take place among their 
manorial houses and tenements, and in the wails and inclosures of 
the convent itself, to the shame and scandal of the institution ; they 
are therefore enjoined, under pain of suspension, to repair all 
defects within the space of six months. 
Item 18th charges them with grievously burthening the said 
priory by means of sales, and grants of liveries and corrodies.{ 
The bishop, in Item 19th, accuses the canons of neglect and 
omission with respect to their perpetual chantry-services. 
Item 20th. The visitor here conjures the prior and canons not to 
withhold their original alms, “ c/eemosynas ;” nor those that they 
were enjoined to distribute for the good of the souls of founders 
and benefactors: he also strictly orders that the fragments and 
broken victuals, both from the hall of their prior and theiz common 
refectory, should be carefully collected together by their e/eemosy- 
zartus, and given to the poor without any diminution; the officer 
to be suspended for neglect or omission. 
* Considering the strong propensity in human nature towards the pleasures of the chase, 
it is not to be wondered that the canons of Canterbury should languish after hunting, when 
from their situation so near the precincts of Woolmer Forest, the king’s hounds must have 
been often in hearing, and sometimes in sight from their windows. If the bishop was so 
ee at these sporting-canons, what would, he have said to our modern fox-hunting 
ivines ? 
+ Liberationes, or liberaturze, allowances of corn, &c., to servants, delivered at certain 
times and in certain quantities, as clothes were among the allowances from religious houses 
to their dependants. See the corrodies granted by Croyland Abbey.—/ist, of Croyland, 
Appendix No. XXXIV. : 
‘It is not improbable that the word in after-ages came to be confined to the uniform 
of the retainers or servants of the great, who were hence called livery servants.’’—SIR 
JOHN CuLtum’s Hist. of Hawsted. 
¢ A corrody 1s an allowance to a servant living in an abbey or priory. 
