OF SELBORNE. 343 



their four household servants, during this sequestration 

 their clothing, wages, and diet, were allowed per ann. xxx lib.; 

 and that the annual pension of the lord prior, reside where he 

 would, was to be x lib. 



In the year 1468, prior Berne, probably wearied out by the 

 dissensions and want of order that prevailed in the convent, 

 resigned his priorship into the hands of the bishop. 



Reg. Waynflete, torn. I. pars. 1*, fol. 157. 



March 28, A.D. 1468. " In quadam alta camera juxta 

 a magnam portam manerii of the bishop of Wynton de Wai- 

 " tliam coram eodem rev. patre ibidem tune sedente, Peter 

 " Berne, prior of Selborne, ipsum prioratum in sacras, et 

 " venerabiles maims of the bishop, viva voce libere resignavit: 

 " and his resignation was admitted before two witnesses and 

 " a notary-public. In consequence, March 29th, before the 

 " bishop, in capella manerii sui ante dicti pro tribunal! 

 " sedente, comparuerunt fratres " Peter Berne, Thomas Lon- 

 don, William Wyndesor, and William Paynell, alias Stret- 

 ford, canons regular of the priory, " capitulum, et conventum 

 " ejusdem ecclesie facientes ; ac jus et voces in electione 

 " futura prioris dicti prioratus solum et in solidum, ut asse- 

 " ruerunt, habentes ; and after the bishop had notified to 

 them the vacancy of a prior, with his free license to elect, 

 deliberated awhile, and then, by way of compromise, as they 

 affirmed, unanimously transferred their right of election to 

 the bishop before witnesses. In consequence of this the 

 bishop, after full deliberation, proceeded, April 7th, " in 

 " capella manerii sui de Waltham" to the election of a prior : 

 " et fratrem Johannem Morton, priorem ecclesie conventualis 

 " de Reygate dicti ordinis S" Augustini Wynton. dioc. in 

 " priorem vice et nomine omnium et singulorum canonicorum 

 " predictorum elegit, in ordine sacerdotali, et etate licita con- 

 " stitutum, &c." And on the same day, in the same place, 

 and before the same witnesses, John Morton resigned to the 

 bishop the priorship of Reygate viva voce. The bishop then 

 required his consent to his own election ; " qui licet in parte 

 " renitens tanti reverendi patris se confirmans," obeyed, and 

 signified his consent oraculo vive vocis. Then was there a 



