300 THE ANTIQUITIES 



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 it's being thence forward very exact. 



A LIST of the PRIORS of SELBORNE PRIORY, from Brown Willis's 

 Principals of Religious Houses, with additions within [ ] by 

 the author. 



[John was prior, sine datj] l 



Nick, de Cantia el. - 



[Peter was prior in - 



[Richard was prior in 



Will. Basing was prior in - 

 Walter de Insula el. in 

 [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 Stype, 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 - 1 468. 



[The canons by compromise transfer the power of elec- 

 tion to the bishop.] 

 Will. Winsor [ Wyndesor, prior for a few days] - 1 47 1 . 



[but removed on account of an irregular election.] 

 Thomas Farwill [Fairwise, vicar of Somborne] - 1471. 



[by compromise again elected by the bishop.] 

 [Peter Berne, re-elected by scrutiny in - 1472,] 



[resigns again in 1478.] 



John Sharper [Sharp] alias Glastonbury - 1478. 



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

 mise.] 

 [Thomas Ashford, canon of Selborne, last prior elected by 



the bishop of Winchester, some time in the year - 1484, 

 and deposed at the dissolution.] 



1 See, in Letter XI. of these Antiquities, the reason why prior John , who had 



transactions with the Knights Templars, is placed in the list before the year 1262. 



