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And there sTial come a king} and confess jou religious ; 
And beate you, as the bible telleth, for breaking your rule, 
And amend monials, and monks, and chanons. 
And put hem to her penaunce ad pristinum statum ire** 
LETTER XVIII, 
ILLIAM of Waynflete became Bisliop of 
Winchester in the year 1447, and seems to 
have pursued the generous plan of Wykeham 
in endeavouring to reform the priory of Sel- 
borne. 
When Waynflete came to the see he found prior Stype, 
alias Stepe, still livings who had been elected as long ago 
as the year 1411. 
Among my documents I find a curious paper of the 
things put into the custody of Peter Bernes the sacrist, and 
especially some relics : the title of this evidence is No. 
50. Indentura prioris de Selborne quorundam tradit. 
Petro Bernes sacrista3, ibidem, ann. Hen. VI. . . . una cum 
confiss. ejusdem Petri script.^' "'^ The occasion of this cata- 
^ F. 1. a. " This prediction, although a probable conclusion concern- 
ing a king who after a time would suppress the religious houses, is re- 
markable. I imagined it was foisted into the copies in the reign of 
king Hemy VIII., but it is in MSS. of this poem, older than the year 
1400" 
"Again, fol. Ixxxv. a. where he. Piers Plowman, alludes to the 
Knights Templars, lately suppressed, he says, 
" Men of holie kirk 
Shall turne as Templars did ; the tyme approacheth nere** 
" This, I suppose, was a favourite doctrine in WicklifTe's discourses.'* 
— Warton's Hist, of English Poetry, vol. i. p. 282. — G. W. 
2 (Appendix No. 50.) 
Indentura Priorts de Selborne quorundam tradit. Petro Barnes sa- 
cristce ibidem ann. Hen. 6. . . . una cum confiss. ejusdem Petri script. 
Hec indentura facta die lune proxime post ffestum natalium Dui anno 
regis Henrici sexti post conquestum anglie v inter ffratrem 
