OF SELBORNE, 
LETTER XXIV. 
SiSHOP Waynefletes efforts to continue the Priory Hill proved un- 
fuccefsful; and the conventj without any canons, and for fome time 
without a prior, was tending fwiftly to it's diffolution. 
When Sharp's, alias GlaJlonhury'Sy priorfliip ended does not appear. 
The bifliop fays that he had been obliged to remove fome priors 
for male-adminiftration : but it is not well explained how that 
could be the cafe with any, unlefs with Sharp ; becaufe all the 
others, chofen during his epifcopate, died in their office, viz. 
Morton and Fah-wife ; Berne only excepted, who i-elinquiflied twice 
voluntarily, and was moreover approved of by IVaynejiete as a per- 
fon of integrity. But the way to fhewwhat ineffeftual pains thebilhop 
took, and what difficulties he met with, will be to quote the words 
of the libel of his proftor Radulphus Langley, who appeared for 
the bifliop in the procefs of the impropriation of the Priory of 
Selbornc. The extratft is taken from an attefted copy, 
" Item — that thefaid bifnop — difto prioratui et perfonis ejufdem 
" pie compatiens, follicitudines pafhorales, iabores, et diligentias 
graviffimas quam plurimas, tam per fe quam per fuos, pro re- 
formatione premifforum impendebat : et aliquando illius loci 
prioribus, propter maiam et inutilcm adminiftrationem, et dif- 
penfationem bonorum predict! prloratus, fuis deraeritis exigen- 
F f f 2 " tibus. 
