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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 

 thence forward 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 1 -] 



[Richard was prior in - 1280.] 



Will. Basing was prior in - I2 99- 



Walter de Insula el. in - 



[Some difficulties, and a devolution ; but the election 



confirmed by bishop Stratford.] 

 John de Wint5n T 339- 



Thomas Weston - I 377- 



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 Wayneflete, 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.] 



Will. Winsor [Wyndesor, prior for a few days] I 47 I - 

 [But removed on account of an irregular election.] 

 Thomas Farwill [Fairwise, vicar of Somborne] 147 1. 

 [By compromise again elected by the bishop.] 



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. 



