OF SELBORNE. 353 



de Rupibus would have rectified this omission ; but, when it 

 was examined, no information of the sort was to be found. 

 From the year 1410 the list is much corrected and improved ; 

 and the reader may depend on it's 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 dat.~\ y 



Nick, 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~\ 1410. 



[Elected by bishop Beaufort " per viam vel formam 



" simplicis compromissi.] 



[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.] 



IT/7/. Winsor [Wyndesor, prior for a few days] 1471. 



[but removed on account of an irregular election.] 

 Thomas Farwill [Fairwise, vicar of Somborne] - 1471. 

 [by compromise again elected by the bishop.] 



v See, in Letter XI. of these Antiquities, the reason why prior John 



, who had transactions with the Kniyhts Templars, is placed in the 



list before the year 1202. 



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