ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE 



Will. Winsor [Wyndesor, prior for a few days] . . 1471 

 [But removed on account of an irregular elec- 

 tion.] 

 Thomas Farwill [Fairwise, vicar of Samborne] . 1471 



[By compromise again elected by the bishop.] 

 [Peter Berne, re-elected by scrutiny in .... 1472] 



[Resigns again in 1478.] 



John Sharper [Sharp], alias Glastonbury . . . 1478 

 [Canon reg. of Bruton, elected by the bishop 



by compromise.] 



[Thomas Ashford, canon of Selborne, last prior 

 elected by the bishop of Winchester, some- 

 time in the year 1484 



And deposed at the dissolution.] 



NOTE 



1 See, in Letter XI. of these Antiquities the reason why Prior John, . . . 

 who had transactions with the Knights Templars, is placed in the list before 

 the year 1262. G. W. 



LETTER XXIV 



BISHOP WAYNFLETE'S efforts to continue the Priory still 

 proved unsuccessful ; and the convent, without any canons, 

 and for some time without a prior, was tending swiftly to its 

 dissolution. 



When Sharp's, alias Glastonbury's, priorship ended does not 

 appear. The bishop says that he had been obliged to remove 

 some priors for maladministration ; but it is not well explained 

 how that could be the case with any unless with Sharp, because 

 all the others chosen during his episcopate died in their office, 

 viz., Morton and Fairwise, Berne only excepted, who re- 

 linquished twice voluntarily, and was, moreover, approved of 

 by Waynflete as a person of integrity. But the way to show 

 what ineffectual pains the bishop took, and what difficulties 

 he met with, will be to quote the words of the libel of his 

 proctor, Rudolphus Langley, who appeared for the bishop in 

 the process of the impropriation of the Priory of Selborne. 

 The extract is taken from an attested copy. 



