OF SELBORNE. LM 7 



the priorship on Peter Berne. " Prioratuni vacantem et ad nos- 

 iraiu collationein, seu provisionem jure ad nos in hac parte per 

 lapsum temporis legitime devoluntu spectantem, tibi (sc. P. 

 Berne) de legitimo matrimonio procreato, &c. conferimus," &c. 

 This deed bears date, July 28, 1454. Keg. Waynflete, torn. i. 

 p. 69. 



On February 8, 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 Gorfiu, 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 areto, 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 Sel- 

 borne. 4 Edward III. with a note of charges yssuirig out 

 of it." 



This is a curious document. From circumstances in this 

 paper it is plain that the sequestration produced good effects ; 

 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 junc- 

 ture only four canons at the Priory ; * and that these, and their 

 four household servants, during this sequestration, for their 

 clothing, wages, and diet, were allowed per ann. 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 



1 If Bishop Wykeham was so disturbed (see Notab. Visitatio) to find the 

 number of canons reduced from fourteen to eleven, what would he have said 

 to have seen it diminished below one third of that number ! 



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