ANTliaUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
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resignation, or death, or whether he was removed by the visitor 
does not appear; we only find that some time in the year 1484 
there was no prior, and that the bishop nominated canon Ash- 
ford to fill the vacancy. 
LETTER XXIII. 
This Thomas Ashford was most undoubtedly the last prior of 
Selborne ; and therefore here will be the proper place to say 
something concerning a list of the priors, and to endeavour to 
improve that already given by others. 
At the end of bishop Tanner's Notitia Monastica, the folio 
edition, among Brown Willis's Principals of Religious Houses 
occur the names of eleven of the priors of Selborne, with dates. 
But this list is imperfect, and particularly at the beginning ; for 
though the Priory was founded in 1232, yet it commences with 
Nich de Cantia, elected in 1262 ; so that for the first thirty years 
no prior is mentioned ; yet there must have been one or more. 
We were in hopes that the register of Peter de Rupibus would 
have rectified this omission ; but, when it was examined, no in- 
formation of the sort was to be found. From the year 1410 the 
list is much corrected and improved ; and the reader may depend 
on its being thence forward very exact. 
A List of the Priors of Selborne Priory, from Brown 
Willis's Principals of Religious Houses, v^tith ad- 
ditions V^^ITHIN [ ] BY the AuTHOR. 
[John was prior, sine dat.]* 
Nich. de Cantia el. _ - - _ - - 1262. 
[Peter was prior in - - - - - -1271.] 
[Richard was prior in 1280.] 
Will. Basing was prior in 1299. 
Walter de Insula el. in - - - - - 1324. 
[Some difficulties, and a devolution; but the election 
confirmed by bishop Stratford.] 
John de Wint5n - - 1339. 
Thomas Weston ------- 1377. 
* See, in Letter XI. of these Antiquities, the reason why prior John , who had transactions 
with the Knights-Templars, is placed in the list before the year 1262. 
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