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ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
From circumstances in this curious document, it is plain that 
the sequestration 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 junc- 
ture 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 ann. 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 
dissensions and want of order that prevailed in the convent, re- 
signed his prior ship into the hands of the bishop. 
Reg. Waynflete, tom. I. pars 1"*% fol. 157- 
March 28, A. D. 1468. "In quadam alta camera juxta mag- 
nam 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 conse- 
quence, March 29th, before the bishop, in capella manerii sui 
ante dicti pro tribunali sedente, comparuerunt fratres" Peter 
Debita que debentur ibid, per diversos tenentes et ffirmarios ad festum Sti. Michaelis anno 
tertio Regis Edvardi 4ti- videlicet. 
Abbas de Derford de ffeod ffirme sua ad ix li. vi s. viii d. per annum "} , 
S XX li. VII s. XI d. 
a retro. J 
Thouias Perkyns armig. ffirmarius Rectorie de Estworlam pro uno ) ^ 
anno finiente ad ffestum Sti. Mich, anno ii. Regis Edvardi 4ti. S ' 
Johannes Shalmere ball de Selborne debet lxxv s. 
Ricardus Cawry debet de eodem anno vi s. 
Summa xxvii li. viii s. xi d, 
Thomas Perkyns armig. debet de ffirme sua predicta] ad festum Sti. \ ^^^^ ^ 
Mich. ann. vii et ultra feod, suum ad xxs. per annum. S 
Thomas lusher debet pro ffirme sua ad xi, s. per annum cum feod. 7 
A yes. 
suis ad XX s. per annum. \ 
Hugo Pakenham debet de reddit. suo ad XX s. psr ann. . c. s. 
Abbas de Devford debet de ffeod ffirme sua ultra xx li. vii s. xi d. ut } 
supra pro annis iii. iiii. et v. Regis Edvardi 5 ^^^"^ 
Walterus Berlond ffirmarius de Skene debet ix li. v s. ii d. 
Henr. Shafter. ffirmarius ^fod de Basynstoke xii li. iiii d. 
Henr. lode uuper ffirmarius manerii de Chede debet xx li. 
Total Lxxxxiv li. xii d. 
Summa lxvi li. xii s. vi d. 
* If bishop Wykeham was so disturbed (see Notab. Visitatio) to find the nzimber of canons 
reduced from fourteen to eleven, what would he have said to have seen it diminished below one 
third of that number. 
