0 F S E L B O 11 N E. 
LETTER XVIII, 
William of JFaynjlete became of Winchifter in tine year 
1447, and feems to have purfued tbe generous plan of 'IVjkekam 
in endeavouring to reform the Priory of Selhorne. 
When fVaynflete came to the fee he found prior Sfype, alias Stepc^ 
ftill living, who had been elefted as long ago as the year 141 1. 
Among my documents I find a curious p^^er of the things 
put into the cuftody of Pern Berfi'es the facrift, and efpecially 
fdnie relics: the title of this evidence is "^N°. 50, Indenture 
prioris de Selborne 'quorundaiti tradit. Petro Bernes facriftce, 
ibidem, ann. Hen. VI. una cum confiff. ejufdem Petri 
*• fcript." The occafion of this catalogue, or lift of effcils, 
being drawn between the prior and facrift does not appear, nor 
the date when ; only that it happened in the reign of Hen. VI. 
This tranfailion probably took place when Bernes entered on his 
office ; and there is the more reafon to fuppofe that to be the cafe, 
becaufe the lift confifts of veftments and implements, and relics, 
fuch as belonged to the church of the Priory, and fell under the 
care of the facrift. For the numerous items I fliall refer the cu- 
rious reader to the Appendix, and Ihall juft mention the relics, 
although they are not all fpecified ; and the ftate of the live 
ftock of the monaftery at that junfture. 
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