OF SELBORNE. 325 



" in spiritualibus et temporalibus circumspectum, jure nobis 

 " hac vice devoluto in hac parte, in dicte ecclesie de Selebourne 

 "perfectum priorem; curam et administrationem ejusdem tibi 

 " in spiritualibus et temporalibus committentes. Dat. apud 

 " Selebourne XIII kalend. Augusti anno supradicto." 



There follows an order to the sub-prior and convent pro 

 obedientia : 



A mandate to Nicholas above-named to release the Priory 

 to the new prior : 



A mandate for the induction of the new prior. 



LETTER XIV. 



" IN the year 1373 Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, held a 

 " visitation of his whole diocese ; not only of the secular 

 " clergy through the several deaneries, but also of the monas- 

 " teries, and religious houses of all sorts, which he visited in 

 " person. The next year he sent his commissioners with 

 " power to correct and reform the several irregularities and 

 " abuses which he had discovered in the course of his visi- 

 " tation. 



" Some years afterward, the bishop having visited three 

 " several times all the religious houses throughout his diocese, 

 " and being well informed of the state and condition of each, 

 " and of the particular abuses which required correction and 

 " reformation, besides the orders which he had already given, 

 " and the remedies which he had occasionally applied by his 

 " commissioners, now issued his injunctions to each of them. 

 " They were accommodated to their several exigencies, and 

 " intended to correct the abuses introduced, and to recall them 

 " all to a strict observation of the rules of their respective 

 " orders. Many of these injunctions are still extant, and are 

 " evident monuments of the care and attention with which he 

 " discharged this part of his episcopal duty."* 



' See Lowth's Life of Wykeham. 



