354 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



Item, We will, ordain, &c., to the said P. Berne an annual 

 pension of ten marks, from the revenue of the priory, to be paid 

 by the hands of the prior quarterly. 



The bishop decrees farther, that John Sharp, and his successors, 

 shall take an oath to observe this injunction, and that before their 

 installation. 



" Lecta et facta sunt hasc in quodam alto oratorio," belonging 

 to the bishop at Suthwaltham, May 25, 1478, in the presence of 

 John Sharp, who gave his assent, and then took the oath before 

 witnesses, with the other oaths before the chancellor, who decreed 

 he should be inducted and installed, as was done that same day. 



How John Sharp, alias Glastonbury, acquitted himself in his 

 priorship, and in what manner he made a vacancy, whether by 

 resignation, or death, or whether he was removed by the visitor, 

 does not appear ; we only find that some time in the year 1484 

 there was no prior, and that the bishop nominated canon Ashford 

 to h'll the vacancy. 



