OF SELBORNE. 
399 
Item. We will, ordain, &c. to the faid P. Berne an annual 
penfion of ten marks, from the revenue of the Priory, to be paid 
by the hands of the prior quarterly. 
The bifhop decrees farther, that yohn Sharp, and his fucceffors, 
fhall take an oath to obferve this injundion, and that before their 
inftallation. 
" Lefta et fada funt hjec in quodam alto oratorio," belonging 
to the bifhop at Suthwalthani, May 25, 1478, in the prefence of 
John Sharp, who gave his aflent, and then took the oath before 
witneffes, with the other oaths before the chancellor, who decreed 
he ftiould be induced and infhallcd ; as was done that fame day. 
How JoZ'W Sharp, ^WdiS Glaftonbury, acquitted himfelf in his prior- 
fliip, and in what manner he made a vacancy, whether by refig- 
nation, or death, or v/hether he was removed by the vifitor, does 
not appear; v/e only find that fome time in the year 1484 there 
was no prior, and that the bifhop nominated canon AfJjford to filli 
the vacancy. 
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