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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 information of the sort was to be found. 

 From the year 14 10 the Hst is much corrected and 

 improved ; and the reader may depend on its being 

 thence forward 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 datJ] ^ 



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 Winton _____ 1339. 



Thomas Weston _ _ _ _ - 1377. 



John Winchester [Wynchestre] - - - 14 10. 



[Elected by bishop Beaufort " per vlam vel formam 



simpllcis compromlssi."] 



[John Stype, alias Stepe, in- - - - 1411-] 



Peter Bene \_alias Berne or Bernes, appointed keeper, 



and, by lapse to bishop Wayneflete, 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 [Falrwise, vicar of Somborne] 1471- 



[By compromise again elected by the bishop.] 



^ 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. 



