ANTIQUITIES OF SELBOllNE. 
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John Wincliester, [Wynchestre] . . . . . 1410 
[Elected by Bishop Beaufort " per viam vel formam 
simplicis compromissi."] 
[John Stype, alias Stepe, in . . . . . 1411] 
Peter Bene [alias Berne or Bernes, appointed keeper, 
and, by lapse to Bishop Waynflete, prior] in . . 1454 
[He resigns in 1468.] 
John Morton [Prior of Rey gate] in .... 1468 
[The canons by compromise transfer the power of 
election to the bishop.] 
Will. Winsor [Wyndesor, prior for a few days] . .1471 
[But removed on account of an irregular election.] 
Thomas Far will [Fairwise, vicar of Samborne] . .1471 
[By 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 
compromise.] 
[Thomas Ashford, canon of Selborne, last prior elected 
by the Bishop of Winchester, some time in the year 1484 
And deposed at the dissolution] 
LETTEE XXIV. 
Bishop Wayneflete'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 dissolution. 
When Sharp's alias Glastonbury's priorship ended does not appear. 
The bishop says that he had been obliged to remove some priors for 
mal-administration ; but it is not well explained how that could be the 
case with any unless with Sharp, because all the others chosen during 
his episcopate died in their office, viz., Morton and Fairwise ; Berne 
only excepted, who relinquished twice voluntarily, and was, moreover, 
approved of by Wayneflete as a person of integrity. But the way to 
show what ineffectual pains the bishop took, and what difficulties he 
met with, will be to quote the words of the libel of his proctor, 
Rudolphus Langley, who appeared for the bishop in the process of the 
impropriation of the Priory of Selborne. The extract is taken from an 
attested copy. 
" Item — that the said bishop, dicto prioratui et personis ejusdem pie 
compatiens, sollicitudines pastorales, labores, et diligentias gravissimas 
quam plurimas, tam per se quam per suos, pro reformatione premissorum 
impendebat ; et aliquando illius loci prioribus, propter malam et 
inutilem administrationem, et dispensationem bonorum predict! 
prioratus, suis demeritis exigentibus, amotis ; alios priores in quorum 
circumspectione et diligentia confidebat, prefecit ; quos tamen male 
