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nostro diocescos nostrique patronatus vacantis, canoni- 

 cum et cantorem, virum utique providum, ct discretum, 

 literarum scientia preditum, vita moribus et conversa- 

 tione merito commendatum, in ordine sacerdotali et 

 etate legitima constitutum, de legitimo matrimonio 

 procreatum, in ordine et religione Sancti Augustini dc 

 Selebourne expresse professum, in spiritualibus et tem- 

 poralibus circumspectum, jure nobis hac vice devoluto in 

 hac parte, in dicte ecclcsie de Selebourne perfcctum 

 priorem ; curam et administrationem ejusdem tibi in 

 spiritualibus et temporalibus committentes. Dat. apud 

 Selebourne XIII kalend. Augusti anno supradicto." 



There follows an order to the sub-prior and convent 

 pro obedientia : 



A mandate to Nicholas above-named to release the 

 Priory to the new prior : 



A mandate for the induction of the new prior. 



LETTER XIV. 



" IN the year 1373 Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, 

 held a visitation of his whole diocese; not only of the 

 secular clergy through the several deaneries, but ;ilso 

 of the monasteries, and religious houses of all sorts, 

 which he visited in person. The next year he sent his 

 commissioners with power to correct and reform the 

 several irregularities and abuses which he had disco- 

 vered in the course of his visitation. 



" Some years afterward, the bishop having visited 

 three several times all the religious houses throughout 

 his diocese, and being well informed of the state and 

 condition of each, and of the particular abuses which 

 required correction and reformation, besides the orders 

 which he had already given, and the remedies which 

 he had occasionally applied by his commissioners, now 

 issued his injunctions to each of them. They wi-re 

 accommodated to their several exigencies, and intended 



