344 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



B.D., rector of the parish church of Hetlegh, John Hylling, vicar 

 of the parish church of Newton Valence, and Walter Gorfin, 

 inhabitant of the parish of Selborne, his sequestrators, to exact, 

 collect, levy, and receive, all the profits and revenues of the said 

 convent : he adds " ac ea sub arcto, et tuto custodiatis, custodirive 

 faciatis ; " as they would answer it to the bishop at their peril. 



In consequence of these proceedings Prior Berne, on the last day 

 of February, and the next year, produced a state of the revenues 

 of the priory, No. 381, called "A paper conteyning the value of 

 the manors and lands pertayning to the priory of Selborne, 4 

 Edward III., with a note of charges yssuing out of it." 



This is a curious document, and will appear in the Appendix. 

 From circumstances in this paper 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 juncture 

 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 annum 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 dissen- 

 sions and want of order that prevailed in the convent, resigned his 

 priorship 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 magnam 

 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 majnus 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 tribunal! sedente, comparuerunt fratres " Peter Berne, 

 Thomas London, William Wyndesor, and William Paynell, alias 

 Stretford, canons regular of the priory, " capitulum, et conventum 

 ejusdem ecclesie facientes ; ac jus et voces in electione futura prioris 

 dicti prioratus solum et in solidum, ut asseruerunt, habentes ; " and 

 after the bishop had notified to them the vacancy of a prior, with 



* If Bishop Wykeham was so disturbed (see " Nctab. 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? 



