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being, honeste exhibebunt of the fruits and profits of the prior- 

 ship, "eidem esculenta et poculenta," while he remained in 

 the Priory, " sub consimili portione eorundem prout conveni- 

 entur priori," for the time being, ministrari contigerit ; and in 

 like manner uni famulo, whom he should choose to wait on 

 him, as to the servientibus of the prior. 



Item. " Invenient seu exhibebunt eidem unam honestam 

 cameram," in the Priory, "cum socialibus necessariis seu oppor- 

 tunis ad eundem." 



Item. We will, ordain, etc., to the said P. Berne an annual 

 pension of ten marks, from the revenue of the Priory, to be 

 paid by the hands of the prior quarterly. 



The bishop decrees farther that John Sharp, and his suc- 

 cessors, shall take an oath to observe this injunction, and that 

 before their installation. 



" Lecta et facta sunt haec in quodam alto oratorio," belong- 

 ing to the bishop at Suthwaltham, May 25th, 1478, in the pres- 

 ence of John Sharp, who gave his assent, and then took the 

 oath before witnesses, with the other oaths before the chan- 

 cellor, who decreed he should be inducted and installed, as 

 was done that same day. 



How John Sharp, alias Glastonbury, acquitted himself in his 

 priorship, and in what manner he made a vacancy, whether by 

 resignation, or death, or whether he was removed by the visitor, 

 does not appear ; we only find that sometime in the year 1484 

 there was no prior, and that the bishop nominated Canon Ash- 

 ford to fill the vacancy. 



NOTE 



1 Here we see that all the canons were changed in six years ; and that 

 there was quite a new chapter, Berne excepted, between 1472 and 1478 ; for, 

 instead of Wyndesor, London, and Stratfeld, we find Ashford, Clydgrove, 

 Ashton, and Canwood, all new men, who were soon gone in their turn off 

 the stage, and are heard of no more. For, in six years after, there seem to 

 have been no canons at all. G. W. 



LETTER XXIII 



THIS Thomas Ashford was most undoubtedly the last prior 

 of Selborne ; and, therefore, here will be the proper place to 



