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said priory, and empowering him to collect and receive the profits 

 and revenues and " alia bona " of the said priory ; and to exercise 

 in every respect the full power and authority of a prior ; but to 

 be responsible to the visitor finally, and to maintain this superiority 

 during the bishop's pleasure only. This instrument is dated from 

 the bishop's manor-house in Southwark, March ist, 1453-4, and 

 the seventh of his consecration. 



After this transaction it does not appear that the chapter of the 

 Priory proceeded to any election ; on the contrary, we find that 

 at six months' end from the vacancy the visitor declared that a 

 lapse had taken place ; and that therefore he did confer the prior- 

 ship on canon Peter Berne " Prioratum vacantem et ad nostram 

 collationem, seu provisionem jure ad nos in hac parte per lapsum 

 temporis legitime devoluto spectantem, tibi (sc. P. Berne) de 

 legitimo matrimonio procreato, &c., conferimus," etc. This deed 

 bears date July 28th, 1454. Reg. Waynflete, torn. I. p. 69. 



On February 8th, 1462, the visitor issued out a power of 

 sequestration against the priory of Selborne on account of noto- 

 rious dilapidations, which threatened manifest ruin to the roofs, 

 walls, and edifices, of the said convent; and appointing John 

 Hammond, 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 seques- 

 trators, 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 



