344 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
B.D., rector of the parish church of Hetlegh, John Hylling, vicar 
of the parish church of Newton Valence, and Walter Gorfin, 
inhabitant of the parish of Selborne, his sequestrators, to exact, 
collect, levy, and receive, all the profits and revenues of the said 
convent: he adds “ac ea sub arcto, et tuto custodiatis, custodirive 
faciatis ;” as they would answer it to the bishop at their peril. 
In consequence of these proceedings Prior Berne, on the last day 
of February, and the next year, produced a state of the revenues 
of the priory, No. 381, called ‘“‘ A paper conteyning the value of 
the manors and lands pertayning to the priory of Selborne, 4 
Edward III., with a note of charges yssuing out of it.” 
This is a curious document, and will appear in the Appendix. 
From circumstances in this paper it is plain that the sequestration 
produced good effects ; for in it are to be found bills of repairs to 
a considerable amount. 
By this evidence also it appears that there were at that juncture 
only four canons at the priory; * and that these, and their four 
household servants, during this sequestration for their clothing, 
wages, and diet, were allowed per annum xxx. lib.; and that the 
annual pension of the lord prior, reside where he would, was to 
be x. lib. 
In the year 1468, Prior Berne, probably wearied out by the dissen- 
sions and want of order that prevailed in the convent, resigned his 
priorship into the hands of the bishop.—Reg. Waynflete, tom I., 
pars 1%; fols\157; 
March 28, A.D. 1468. “In quadam alta camera juxta magnam 
portam manerii of the Bishop of Wynton de Waltham coram 
eodem rev. patre ibidem tunc sedente, Peter Berne, prior of 
Selborne, ipsum prioratum in sacras, et venerabiles manus of 
the bishop, viva voce libere resignavit : and his resignation was 
admitted before two witnesses and a notary-public. In conse- 
quence, March 29th, before the bishop, in capella manerii sui ante 
dicti pro tribunali sedente, comparuerunt fratres” Peter Berne, 
Thomas London, William Wyndesor, and William Paynell, alias 
Stretford, canons regular of the priory, “ capitulum, et conventum 
ejusdem ecclesie facientes ; ac jus et voces in electione futura prioris 
dicti prioratus solum et in solidum, ut asseruerunt, habentes ;” and 
after the bishop had notified to them the vacancy of a prior, with 
* If Bishop Wykeham was so disturbed (see “‘ Notab. Visitatio’’) to find the number of 
canons reduced from fourteen to eleven, what would he have said to have seen it diminished 
below one third of that number? 
