320 THE ANTIQUITIES 



tionem, seu provisionem jure ad nos in hac parte per 

 lapsum temporis legitime devolutu spectantem, tibi (sc. 

 P. Berne) de legitime matrimonio procreate, &c. — conferi- 

 mus," etc. This deed bears date July 28, 1454. — Reg. 

 Waynfiete, tom. I. p. 69. 



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

 sequestration against the Priory of Selborne on account 

 of notorious dilapidations which threatened manifest ruin 

 to the roofs, walls, and edifices of the said convent; 

 and appointing John Hammond, B.D., rector of the 

 parish church of Hetlegh, 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 arcto, 

 et tuto custodiatis, custodirive facialis "; 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 pertayning 

 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 biUs of repairs to a considerable amount. 



By this evidence also it appears that there were at that 

 juncture only four canons at the Priory^; 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 



^ If bishop Wykeham was so disturbed (see Notab. Visitatio) 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 ? 



