354 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
Item, We will, ordain, &c., to the said P. Berne an annual 
pension of ten marks, from the revenue of the priory, to be paid 
by the hands of the prior quarterly. 
The bishop decrees farther, that John Sharp, and his successors, 
shall take an oath to observe this injunction, and that before their 
installation. 
“Tecta et facta sunt hec in quodam alto oratorio,” belonging 
to the bishop at Suthwaltham, May 25, 1478, in the presence of 
John Sharp, who gave his assent, and then took the oath before 
witnesses, with the other oaths before the chancellor, who decreed 
he should be inducted and installed, as was done that same day. 
How John Sharp, alias Glastonbury, acquitted himself in his 
priorship, and in what manner he made a vacancy, whether by 
resignation, or death, or whether he was removed by the visitor, 
does not appear; we only find that some time in the year 1484 
there was no prior, and that the bishop nominated canon Ashford 
to fill the vacancy. 
