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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 juncture 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 annum 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 dissen- 
sions and want of order that prevailed in the convent, resigned his 
priorship into the hands of the bishop. — Eeg. Waynflete, torn. I., 
pars fol. 157. 
March 28, A.D. 1468. "In quadam alta camera juxta magnam 
portam manerii of the Bishop of Wynton de Waltham coram eodem 
rev. patre ibidem tunc sedente, Peter Berne, prior of Selborne, ipsum 
prioratum in sacras, et venerabiles manus of the bishop, viva voce libere 
resignavit : and his resignation was admitted before two witnesses and 
a notary-public. In consequence, March 29th, before the bishop, in 
capella manerii sui ante dicti pro tribunali sedente, comparuerunt 
fratres" Peter Berne, Thomas London, William Wyndesor, and William 
Paynell, alias Stretford, canons regular of the priory, " capitulum, et 
conventum ejusdem ecclesie facientes ; ac jus et voces in electione 
futura prioris dicti prioratus solum et in solidum, ut asseruerunt, 
habentes ; " and after the bishop had notified to them the vacancy of a 
prior, with his free license to elect, deliberated awhile, and then, by 
way of compromise, as they affirmed, unanimously transferred their 
right of election to the bishop before witnesses. In consequence of this 
the bishop, after full deliberation, proceeded, April 7 th, " in capella 
manerii sui de Waltham," to the election of a prior; "et fratrem 
Johannem Morton, priorem ecclesie conventualis de Keygate dicti 
ordinis S*\ Augustini AVynton. dioc. in priorem vice et nomine omnium 
et singulorum canonicorum predictorum elegit, in ordine sacerdotali, 
et etate licita constitutum, &c." And on the same day, in the same 
place, and before the same witnesses, John Morton resigned to the 
bishop the priorship of Reygate viva voce. The bishop then required 
his consent to his own election : " qui licet in parte renitens tanti 
reverendi patris se confirmans," obeyed, and signified his cqnsent 
oraculo vive vocis. Then was there a mandate citing any one who 
would gainsay the said election to appear before the bishop or his com- 
missary in his chapel at Farnham on the second day of May next. The 
dean of the deanery of Aulton then appeared before the chancellor, his 
commissary, and returned the citation or mandate dated April 22nd, 
1468, with signification, in writing, of his having published it as 
required, dated Newton Yalence, May 1st., 1468. This certificate being 
read, the four canons of Selborne appeared and required the election to 
be confirmed ; et ex super ahundanti appointed William Long their 
proctor to solicit in their name that he might be canonically confirmed. 
* 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? 
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