238 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



diutinas interpellationes, et deliberationes, et deliberationem providam 

 penes se habitam, in hac parte divine nolens, ut asseruit, resistere 

 voluntati," within the limited time he signified his acceptance in the 

 usual written form of words. The bishop is then supplicated to confirm 

 their election, and do the needful, under common seal, in the chapter- 

 house. November 14, 1410. 



The bishop, January 6, 1410, apud Esher in camera inferiori, 

 declared the election duly made, and ordered the new prior to be 

 inducted, for this the archdeacon of Winchester was written to; 

 "stallumque in choro, et locum in capitulo juxta morem preteriti 

 temporis," to be assigned to him, and everything beside necessary to 

 be done. 



" BEAUFORT'S REGISTER," VOL. I. 



P. 2. Taxatio spiritualis Decanatus de Aulton, Ecclesia de Selebourn, 

 cum Capella, xxx marc, decima xlib. iii. fol. Yicaria de Selebourn non 

 taxatur propter exilitatem. 



P. 9. Taxatio bonorum temporalium religiosorum in Archidiac. 

 Wynton. 



Prior de Selebourn habet meneria de 



Bromdene taxat. ad 



Apud Schete ad 



P. Selebourne ad 



In civitate Wyiiton de reddit .... 



Tannaria sua taxat ad 



Summa tax. xxxviii lib . xiiii d. ob. Inde decima 



xxx s. ii d. 



xvii s. 



vi lib. 



vi lib. viii ob. 



x lib. s. 



vi lib. s. q. ob. 



LETTER XYII. 



INFORMATION being sent to Rome respecting the havoc and spoil that 

 was carrying on among the revenues and lands of the Priory of 

 Selborne, as we may suppose by the Bishop of Winchester, its visitor, 

 Pope Martin,* as soon as the news of these proceedings came before 

 him, issued forth a bull, in which he enjoins his commissary imme- 

 diately to revoke all the property that had been alienated. 



In this instrument his holiness accuses the prior and canons of 

 having granted away (they themselves and their predecessors) to certain 

 clerks and laymen their tithes, lands, rents, tenements, and possessions, 

 to some of them for their lives, to others for an undue term of years, 

 and to some again for a perpetuity, to the great and heavy detriment 

 of the monastery ; and these leases were granted, he continues to 

 add, under their own hands, with the sanction of an oath and the 

 renunciation of all right and claims, and under penalties, if the right 

 was not made good. But it will be best to give an abstract from the 

 bull. 



* Pope Martin V. chosen about 1417. He attempted to reform the church, but 

 died in 1431, just as he had summoned the Council of Basil. 



