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say something concerning a list of the priors, and to endeavor 

 to improve that already given by others. 



At the end of Bishop Tanner's " Notitia Monastica," the 

 folio edition, among Brown Willis's " Principals of Religious 

 Houses," occur the names of eleven of the priors of Selborne, 

 with dates. But this list is imperfect, and particularly at the 

 beginning; for though the Priory was founded in 1232, yet it 

 commences with Nich. de Cantia, elected in 1262, so that, for 

 the first thirty years, no prior is mentioned ; yet there must have 

 been one or more. We were in hopes that the register of Peter 

 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 its being thenceforward 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.~] 1 



Nich. de Cantia el 1262 



[Peter was prior in I2 7 r ] 



[Richard was prior in 1280] 



Will. Basing was prior in I2 99 



Walter de Insula el. in 1324 



[Some difficulties and a devolution; but the 

 election confirmed by Bishop Stratford.] 



John de Wint<?n 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 Waynflete, 



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.] 



