388 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



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] - - 1471. 



[but removed on account of an irregular election.] 

 Thomas Farwill [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- 



promisec] 

 [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 Wayneflete'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 mal-administration : 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 relinquished 

 twice voluntarily, and was moreover approved of by Wayneflete 

 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 Radulphus Langley, 

 who appeared for the bishop in the process of the impropriation 



