536 THE ANTIQUITIES [LETT. 
[Peter was prior in 1271.] 
[Eicliard ■ 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 Bisliop Stratford.] 
John de Winton 1339. 
Thomas Weston 1377. 
John Winchester [AYynchestre] 1410, 
[Elected by Bishop Beaufort " per viam vel formani 
.simplicis compromissi."] 
[John Stype, alias Stepe, in 1411.] 
Peter Bene [alias Berne or Bernes, apj)ointed keeper, 
and, by lapse to Bishop Waynellete, prior] in . . . 1454. 
[lie resigns in 1468.] 
John Morton [Prior of Eeygate] in 1468. 
[The canons by compromise transfer the power of 
election to the bisliop.] 
Will. Winsor [Wyndesor, prior for a few^ days] . . . 1471. 
[but removed on account of an irregular election.] 
Thomas Parwill [Fairwise, vicar of Somborne] . . . 1471. 
[l)y 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 com- 
promise.] 
[Thomas Ashford, canon of Selborne, last prior elected 
by the Bishop of Winchester, some time in the year 1484. 
and deposed at the dissolution.] 
LETTER XXIV. 
Bishop Wainfleet's efforts to continue the Priory still 
proved unsuccessful ; and the convent, without any canons, and 
for some time without a prior, was tending swiftly to its dis- 
solution. 
When Sharp's, alia^ Glastonbury's priorship ended does not 
