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 hisr of the Priors of Selborne Priory, from Brown Willis's 

 Principals of Religious Houses, rvith additions within [ ] 6^ 

 the author. 



[John was prior, sine dat.~\ i 



Nick de Cantia eL 1262. 



Peter was prior in - 1271. 



Richard was prior in 1280, 



Will. Basing was prior in - 1299- 



Walter de Insula el. in 1324. 



[Some difficulties, and a devolution ; but the election 

 confirmed by bishop Stratford.'\ 

 John de Winton 1339- 



Thomas Weston 1377. 



John Winchester [Wijn^hestre] 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 Waynejtete, prior] in 1454. 



[He resigns in 1468.] 

 John Morion [prior of Reygate^ in 1468. 



[The canons by compromise transfer the power of elec- 

 tion to the bishop.] 

 Will. Winsor [Wyndesor, prior for a few days] 1471. 



[but removed on account of an irregular election.] 

 Thomas Farniill [Fairrvise, 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.] 



' See, in Letter XI. of these Antiquities, the reason why prior /oAn , who had 



transactions with the Knights Temflars, is placed in the list before the year 1263. 



