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A N T I QJJ I T I E S 
LETTER XXIII. 
This Thomas J/J.ford was nioft undoubtedly the lafh prior of Sel- 
home ; and therefore here will be the proper place to fay fomething 
concerning a lift of the priors, and to endeavour to improve that 
already given by others. 
At the end of bifhop Tanner's Notitia Monajlica, the folio edition, 
among Brown IVillis's Principals of Religious Houfes occur the names 
of eleven of the priors of Selborne, with dates. But this lift is im- 
perfedl, and particularly at the beginning ; for though the Priory 
was founded in 1232, yet it commences with Nich. de Cantia, eleft- 
ed in 1262 ; fo that for the firft thirty years no prior is mentioned; 
yet there muft have been one or more. We were in hopes that 
the regifter of Feter de Rupibus would have reftified this omiffion ; 
but, when it was examined, no information of the fort was to be 
found. From the year 1410 the lift is much correded and im- 
proved ; and the reader may depend on it's being thence forward 
very exaft. 
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