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ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
diutinas interpellationes, et deliberationes, et deliberationem providam 
penes se habitam, in bac parte divine nolens, ut asseruit, resistere 
voluntati/' witbin tbe limited time he signified his acceptance in the 
usual written form of words. The bishop is then supplicated to confirm 
their election, and do the needful, under common seal, in the chapter- 
house. November 14, 1410. 
The bishop, January 6, 1410, ajpud Esher in camera inferiori, 
declared the election duly made, and ordered the new prior to be 
inducted, for this the archdeacon of Winchester was written to ; 
" stallumque in choro, et locum in capitulo juxta morem preteriti 
temporis," to be assigned to him, and everything beside necessary to 
be done. 
Beaufort's Eegister," Yol. I. 
P. 2. Taxatio spiritualis Decanatus de Aulton, Ecclesia de Selebourn, 
cum Capella, xxx marc, decima xlib. iii. fol. Yicaria de Selebourn non 
taxatur propter exilitatem. 
P. 9. Taxatio bonorum temporalium religiosorum in Archidiac. 
Wynton. 
Prior de Selebourn habet meneria de 
Bromdene taxat. ad xxx s. ii d. 
Apud Schete ad xvii s. 
P. Selebourne ad vi lib. 
In civitate Wynton de reddit vi lib. viii ob. 
Tannaria sua taxat ad . x lib. s. 
Summa tax. xxxviii lib . xiiii d. ob. Inde decima . . vi lib. s. q. ob. 
LETTEE XVII. 
Information being sent to Kome respecting the havoc and spoil that 
was carrying on among the revenues and lands of the Priory of 
Selborne, as we may suppose by the Bishop of Winchester, its visitor, 
Pope Martin,* as soon as the news of these proceedings came before 
him, issued forth a bull, in which he enjoins his commissary imme- 
diately to revoke all the property that had been alienated. 
In this instrument his holiness accuses the prior and canons of 
having granted away (they themselves and their predecessors) to certain 
clerks and laymen their tithes, lands, rents, tenements, and possessions, 
to some of them for their lives, to others for an undue term of years, 
and to some again for a perpetuity, to the great and heavy detriment 
of the monastery ; and these leases were granted, he continues to 
add, under their own hands, with the sanction of an oath and the 
renunciation of all right and claims, and under penalties, if the right 
was not made good. — But it will be best to give an abstract from the 
bull. 
* Pope Martin V. chosen about 1417. He attempted to reform the church, but 
died in 1431, just as he had summoned the Council of Basil. 
