XIX.] 
OF SELBORNE. 
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the priorship on Peter Berne. — " Prioratum vacanfcein et ad nos- 
tram collationem, sen provisionem jure ad nos in liac parte ;per 
lajpsum temporis legitime devoluntu spectanlem, 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 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 areto, et 
tuto custodiatis, custodirive faciatis ; " 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 ]3ertayning to the Priory of Sel- 
borne. 4 Edward III. with a note of charges yssuing out 
of it." 
This is a curious document. 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 junc- 
ture only four canons at the Priory ; ^ and that these, and their 
four household servants, during this sequestration, 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 
1 If Bishop WykehaiD 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 ? 
