364 A N T I QJJ I T I E S 
There follows an order to the fub-prlor and convent pro 
cbedientia : 
A mandate to Nicholas above-named to releafe the Priory to 
the new prior : 
A mandate for the indudion of the new prior. 
LETTER XIV. 
In the year 1373 JFykeham, bifhop of Winchejler, held a vifitation 
" of his whole diocefe ; not only of the fccular clergy through 
" the feveral deaneries, but alfo of the monafteries, and religious 
houfes of all forts, which he villted in perfon. The next year 
" he fent his commilfioners with power to corred and reform the 
feveral irregularities and abufes which he had difcovered in the 
" courfe of his vifitation. 
Some years afterward, the bifhop having vlfited three feveral 
*' times, all the religious houfes throughout his diocefe, and being 
" well informed of the ftate and condition of each, and of the 
*' particular abufes which required corredlion and reformation, 
*' befides the orders which he had already given, and the remedies 
" which he had occafionally applied by his commiflioners, now 
ilTued his injunctions to each of them. They were accommo- 
dated to their feveral exigencies, and intended to correal the 
*' abufes introduced^ and to recall them all to a ftridt obfervation 
of 
