ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 341 
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Ee EP Re 26 NDA. 
WILLIAM of Waynflete became bishop of Winchester in the year 
1447, and seems to have pursued the generous plan of Wykeham in 
endeavouring to reform the priory of Selborne. 
When Waynflete came to the see he found prior Stype, alias 
Stepe, still living, who had been elected as long ago as the year 
I4Il. 
Among my documents I find a curious paper of the things put 
into the custody of Peter Bernes the sacrist, and especially some 
relics: the title of this evidence is “No. 50, Indentura prioris de 
Selborne quorundam tradit Petro Bernes, sacrista ibidem, ann. 
Hen: VI... .. una cum confiss, ejasdem Peta Senipt’ * The 
occasion of this catalogue or list of effects, being drawn between 
the prior and sacrist does not appear, nor the date when; only 
that it happened in the reign of Hen. VI. This transaction prob- 
ably took place when Bernes entered on his office; and there is 
the more reason to suppose that to be the case, because the list 
consists of vestments and implements, and relics, such as belonged 
to the church of the priory, and fell under the care of the sacrist. 
For the numerous items I shall refer the curious reader to the 
Appendix, and shall just mention the relics, although they are not 
all specified ; and the state of the live stock of the monastery at 
that juncture. 
“Item 2. osculator. argent. 
“Ttem 1. osculatortum cum osse digit? auricular.—Sti. Johannis 
Baptista.* 
“Item I. parvam crucem cum V. religuits. 
“Item 1. avzulum argent. et deauratum St. Edmundi.t 
“Ttem 2. osculat. de coper. 
* How the Convent came by the bone of the little finger of St. John the Baptist does 
not appear: probably the founder, while in Palestine, purchased it among the Asiatics, 
who were at that time great traders in relics. We know from the best authority that as 
soon as Herod had cruelly beheaded that holy man “‘ his disciples came and took up the 
body and buried it, and went and told Jesus.””—Ja?z. iv. 12. Farther would be difficult 
i : ‘Hovelber 20, in the calendar, Edmund king and martyr, in the 9th century. See also 
a Sanctus Edmundus in Godwin, among the archbishops of Canterbury, in the 13th 
century ; his surname Rich, in 1234. 
