228 THE ANTIQUITIES [LETT. 



[Peter was prior in . 1271.] 



[Richard was prior in 1280.] 



Will. Basing was prior in 1299. 



Walter de Insula el. in 1324. 



[Some difficulties, and a. devolution ; but the election 

 confirmed by Bishop Stratford.] 



John de Winton 1339. 



Thomas Weston . . . 1377. 



John Winchester [Wynchestre] 1410. 



[Elected by Bishop Beaufort " per viam vel formani 

 simplicis compromissi."] 



[John Stype, alias Stepe, in 1411.] 



Peter Bene [alias Berne or Bernes, appointed keeper, 

 and, by lapse to Bishop Wayne flete, prior] in ... 1454. 

 [He resigns in 1468.] 



John Morton [Prior of Eeygate] in 1468. 



[The canons by compromise transfer the power of 



election to the bishop.] 

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



[but removed on account of an irregular election.] 

 Thomas Earwill [Fairwise, vicar of Somborne] . . . 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 com- 

 promise.] 

 [Thomas Ashford, canon of Selborne, last prior elected 



by the Bishop of Winchester, some time in the year 1484. 

 and deposed at the dissolution.] 



LETTER XXIV. 



BISHOP WAIJIFLEET'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 dis- 

 solution. 



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



