600 ANTIQUITIES 



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 thenceforward very exact. 



A List of the Priors of Selborne Priory, from Brown 

 Willis's Principals of Religious Houses, with addi- 

 tions within [ ] by the Author. 



[John was prior, sine dat l .~\ 



Nich. de Cantia. el 1262. 



[Peter was prior in . . . . . * . . 1271. J 



[Richard was prior in ;.. . . 1280.] 



Will. Basing was prior in . .-*.' . * ,--. . . 1299. 

 Walter de Insula el. in ; , I .* $f*%^ -* 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 



formam simplicis compromissi."] 



[John S type, 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 elec- 

 tion.] 



1 See, in Letter XT. of these Antiquities, the reason why prior John 



, who had transactions with the Knights Templars, is placed in the 



list before the year 1262. 



