ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 387 
fs OE Re ae EN, 
BISHOP WAYNEFLETE’S efforts to continue the priory still 
proved unsuccessful ; and the convent, without any canons, and 
for some time without a prior, was tending swiftly to its dissolution. 
When Sharp’s alias Glastonbury’s priorship ended does not 
appear. The bishop says that he had been obliged to remove some 
priors for mal-administration ; but it is not well explained how that 
could be the case with any unless with Sharp, because all the others 
chosen during his episcopate died in their office, viz., Morton and 
Fairwise ; Berne only excepted, who relinquished twice voluntarily, 
and was, moreover, approved of by Wayneflete as a person of ‘in- 
tegrity. But the way to show what ineffectual pains the bishop 
took, and what difficulties he met with, will be to quote the words of 
the libel of his proctor, Rudolphus Langley, who appeared for the 
bishop in the process of the impropriation of the Priory of Selborne. 
The extract is taken froman attested copy. 
“ Ttem—that the said bishop, dicto prioratui et personis ejusdem 
pie compatiens, sollicitudines pastorales, labores, et diligentias 
gravissimas quam plurimas, tam per se quam per suos, pro reforma- 
tione premissorum impendebat ; et aliquando illius loci prioribus, 
propter malam et inutilem administrationem, et dispensationem 
bonorum predicti prioratus, suis demeritis exigentibus, amotis ; 
alios priores in quorum circumspectione et diligentia confidebat, 
prefecit ; quos tamen male se habuisse ac inutiliter administrare, 
et administrasse, usque ad presentia tempora post debitam inves- 
tigationem, &ce., invenit.” So that he despaired with all his 
care: “statum ejusdem reparare vel restaurare:; et con- 
siderata temporis malicia, et preteritis timendo et conjecturando 
futura, de aliqua bona et  sancta religione ejusdem ordinis, 
&c., juxta piam intentionem primevi fundatoris ibidem habend. 
desperatur.” 
William Wainfleet, Bishop of Winchester, founded his college of 
Saint Mary Magdalene, in the University of Oxford, in or about the 
year 1459; but the revenues proving insufficient for so large and 
noble an establishment, the college supplicated the founder to aug- 
