360 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



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, sine dat.'Y' 



Nich. de Cantia el 1262 



[Peter was prior in 1271] 



[Richard was prior in 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 Whiten 1339 



Thomas Weston 1377 



John Winchester, [Wynchestre] . . . . . .1410 



[Elected by Bishop Beaufort "per viam vel 

 formam simplicis compromissi."] 



[John Sty pe, alias Stepe, in 1411] 



Peter Bene [alias Berne or Bernes, appointed 

 keeper, and, by lapse to Bishop Waynflete, 



prior] in . . . 1454 



[He resigns in 1468.] 



John Morton [Prior of Reygate] in 1468 



[The canons by compromise transfer the power 



of election to the bishop.] 

 Will. Winsor [Wyndesor, prior for a few days] . .1471 



[But removed on account of an irregular election.] 

 Thomas Farwill [Fairwise, vicar of Samborne] . . 1471 



[By compromise again elected by the bishop.] 

 [Peter Berne, re-elected by scrutiny in . . . .1472] 

 [Resigns again in 1478.] 



* See, in Letter XL of these Antiquities, the reason why Prior John .... 

 who had transac.ions with the Knights Temolars, is placed in the list before 

 the year 1262, 



