378 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



From circumstances in this curious document, 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 

 dissensions and want of order that prevailed in the convent, re- 

 signed his prior ship into the hands of the bishop. 



Reg. Waynflete, torn. I. pars i ma , fol. 157- 



March 28, A. D. 1468. '" In quadam alta camera juxta mag- 

 nam portam manerii of the bishop of Wynton de Waltham 

 coram eodem rev. patre ibidem tune sedente, Peter Berne, prior 

 of Selborne, ipsum prioratum in sacras, et venerabiles manus of 

 the bishop, viva voce libere resignavit : and his resignation was 

 admitted before two witnesses and a notary-public. In conse- 

 quence, March 29th, before the bishop, in capella manerii sui 

 ante dicti pro tribunali sedente, comparuerunt fratres" Peter 



Debita que debentur ibid, per diversos tenentes et ffirmarios ad festum Sti. Michaelis anno 

 tertio Regis Edvardi 4t>. videlicet. 



Abbas de Derford de ffeod ffirme sua ad ix li. vi s. vin d. per annum 1 xxJ . vji g 

 a retro. J 



Thomas Perkyns armig. ffirmarius Rectorie de Estworlam pro uno } 

 anno finiente ad ffestum S'. Mich, anno n. Regis Edvardi 4*. 3 *"* 



Johannes Shalmere bill de Selborne debet LXXV s. 



Ricardus Cawry debet de eodem anno vi s. 



Summa xxvn li. vin s. xi d. 



Thomas Perkyns armig. debet de ffirme sua predicta' ad festum S". } yn }i yig VHld 

 Mich. ann. vn et ultra feod. suum ad xx s. per annum. 



Thomas lusher debet pro ffirme sua ad XL s. per annum cum feod. ? 

 suis ad xx s. per annum. 



^ 

 Hugo Pakenham debet de reddit. suo ad xxs. psr ann. c. s. 



Abbas de Derford debet de ffeod ffirme sua ultra xxli. vn s. xi d. ut J 

 supra pro annis HI. mi. et v. Regis Edvardi 5 XXVI " T 



Walterus Berlond ffirmarius de Shene debet ix li. v s. 11 d. 



Henr. Shafter. ffirmarius ffeod de Basynstoke xii li. mi d. 



Henr. lode uuper ffirmarius manerii de Chede debet xx li. 



Total Lxxxxivli. xii d. 



Summa LXVI li. xii s. vi d. 



* 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. 



