THE ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE 279 



legitime devoluto spectantem, tibi (sc. P. Berne) de legitimo 

 matrimonio procreate, &c. conferimus," &c. This deed 

 bears date July 28, 1454. Reg. Waynflete, torn. I. p. 69. 



On February 8, 1462, the visitor issued out a power of 

 sequestration against the Priory of Selbome on account of 

 notorious dilapidations, which threatened manifest ruin to 

 the roofs, walls, and edifices, of the said convent ; and ap- 

 pointing John Hammond, B.D., rector of the parish church 

 of Hetleigh, 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 areto, et tuto custodiatis, custodirive 

 aciatis ; " 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 per- 

 tayning 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 ; J and that these, 

 and their four household servants, during this sequestra- 

 tion for their clothing, wages, and diet, were allowed per 

 ann. 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 dissensions and want of order that prevailed in the 

 convent, resigned his priorship into the hands of the 

 bishop. Reg. Waynflete, torn I., pars I, fol. 157. 



1 If bishop Wykcham was so disturbed (see Notab. Visilatio) 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? [G. W.] 



