OF SELBORNE. G07 



Thomas Farwill [Fairwise, vicar of Somborne] 1471. 



[by compromise again elected by the bishop.] 

 [Peter Berne, reelected by scrutiny in ... . 1472.] 



[resigns again in 1478.] 

 John Sharper [Sharp] alias Glastonbury . . 1478. 



[Canon-reg. of Bruton, elected by the bishop 



by compromise.] 

 [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 WAYNFLETE'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 relin- 

 quished twice voluntarily, and was moreover approved 

 of by Waynflete 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 impropria- 

 tion of the Priory of Selborne. The extract is taken 

 from an attested copy. 



" Item that the said bishop dicto prioratui et per- 

 sonis ejusdem pie compatiens, sollicitudines pastorales, 

 labores, et diligentias gravissimas quain plurimas, tarn 



