OF SELRORN K 
LETTER XVII. 
Information being fent to Rome refpcdlng the havock and 
fpoil that was carrying on among the revenues and lands of the 
Priory of Selborne, as we may fuppofe by the bilhop of IVi-ncbcifter, 
it's vifitor. Tope Martin^, as foon as the news of thefe proceedings 
came before him, ilFued forth a hull, in wliich he eni'oins his 
commifTary immediately to revoke all the property that had 
been alienated. 
In this inftrument his holinefs accufes the prior and canons of 
having granted av/ay (they themfelves and their predeceflbrs) to 
certain clerks and laymen their tithes, lands, rents, tenements, 
and poITeflions, to fome of them for their lives, to others for an 
undue term of years, and to fomc again for a perpetuity, to the 
great and heavy detriment of the monaftery : and thefe leafes 
were granted, he continues to add, under their own hands, with 
the fantflion of an oath and the renunciation of all right and 
claims, and under penalties, if the right was not made good. — 
But it will be belt to give an abftrad from ihc bull. 
N. 298. Pope Martin s bull touching the revoking of certaine 
things alienated from the Priory of Scleburne. Pontif. fui ann. i. 
P Pope Martin V. chofen about 1417. He attempted to reform the church, but died 
ill 14.31, juft as he had fummoned the council of Ba/iL 
C c c 2 *' Marthius. 
