ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE, 355 
RECEP R USAT TL 
THIS Thomas Ashford was most undoubtedly the last prior of 
Selborne ; and, therefore, here will be the proper place to say 
something concerning a list of the priors, and to endeavour to 
improve that already given by others. 
At the end of Bishop Tanner’s “ Notitia Monastica,” the folio 
edition, among Brown Willis’s “ Principals of Religious Houses,” 
occur the names of eleven of the priors of Selborne, with dates. 
But this list is imperfect, and particularly at the beginning ; for 
though the priory was founded in 1232, yet it commences with 
Nich. de Cantia, elected in 1262, so that, for the first thirty years, 
no prior is mentioned ; yet there must have been one or more. 
We were in hopes that the register of Peter de Rupibus would 
have rectified this omission; but, when it was examined, no in- 
formation of the sort was to be found. From the year 1410 the list 
is much corrected and improved, and the reader may depend on 
its being thenceforward very exact. 
A LIST OF THE PRIORS OF SELBORNE PRIORY, FROM BROWN 
WILLIS’S “PRINCIPALS OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES,” WITH 
ADDITIONS WITHIN [ ] BY THE AUTHOR 
[John . . . was prior, szve dat.]* 
Nich. de Cantia el. 2 eet ete Si uae) B22 
| Peter was priorin . ees. Rez 
[Richard was priorin : ‘ . 1280] 
Will. Basing was prior in . ‘ : »- + 1299 
Walter de Insula el.in . ; 1324 
Some difficulties, and a devolution ; but the election 
confirmed by Bishop Stratford.] 
John de Wintén . : : ; ; «» 1339 
[Thomas Weston . : ; p ete Ale 
* See, in Letter XI. of these Antiquities. the reason why Prior John. . ., who had 
transactions with the Knights Templars, is placed in the list before the year 1262. 
