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fore he did confer the priorship on canon Peter Berne 

 " Prioratum vacantem et ad nostram collationem, seu pro- 

 visionem jure ad nos in hac parte per lapsum temporis legitime 

 devoluto spectantem, tibi (sc. P. Berne) de legitimo matrimonio 

 procreato, etc., conf erimus," etc. This deed bears date July 

 28th, 1454. Reg. Waynflete, torn. I. p. 69. 



On February 8th, 1462, the visitor issued out a power of 

 sequestration against the Priory of Selborne on account of 

 notorious dilapidations which threatened manifest ruin to the 

 roofs, walls, and edifices of the said convent ; and appointing 

 John Hammond, B.D., rector of the parish church of Hetlegh, 

 John Hylling, vicar of the parish church of Newton Valence, 

 and Walter Gorfin, inhabitant of the parish of Selborne, his 

 sequestrators, to exact, collect, levy, and receive all the profits 

 and revenues of the said convent : he adds " ac ea sub arcto, 

 et tuto custodiatis, custodirive faciatis ; " as they would answer 

 it to the bishop at their peril. 



In consequence of these proceedings Prior Berne, on the last 

 day of February, and the next year, produced a state of the 

 revenues of the Priory, No. 381, called "A paper conteyning 

 the value of the manors and lands pertayning to the Priory of 

 Selborne, 4 Edward III., with a note of charges yssuing out 

 of it." 



This is a curious document, and will appear in the Appendix. 

 From circumstances in this paper it is plain that the seques- 

 tration produced good effect ; for in it are to be found bills of 

 repairs to a considerable amount. 



By this evidence also it appears that there were at that 

 juncture only four canons at the Priory; 1 and that these, and 

 their four household servants, during this sequestration for 

 their clothing, wages, and diet, were allowed per annum 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 i ma ., fol. 157. 



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

 nam portam manerii of the Bishop of Wynton de Waltham 



