L E T T E -R XXIII.
T his ‘Thomas Ajhford was molt undoubtedly the laft prior of Sel~
borne; 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 Notltia Monajlica, the folio edition,
among Brown Willis s Principals of Religious Houfes occur the names
of eleven of the priors of Selborne, with dates. But this lift is im-
perfeft, 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 Peter de Rupibus would have rectified this omiflion ;
but, when it was examined, no information of the fort was to be
found. ■ From the year 1410 the lift is much corrected and improved
; and the reader may depend on it’s being thence forward
yery exaft.
A L i s t
A L i st of the P r i o r s of S e l b o r n e P r i o r y , from Brown
Willis’s Principals of Religious Houfes, with additions within [ ]
by the author.
[John - - - was prior, fine dat.] 1
Nich. de Cantia el. - - -
[Peter —— was prior in - -
[Richard— was prior in - -
Will. Bafing was prior in
Walter de Infula el. in - -
[Some difficulties, and a devolution; but the eleftion
confirmed by bifhop Stratford.]
John de Winton - . . . .
Thomas Wejlon - -
John Winchejler, [Wynchejlre']
[Elefted by bifhop Beaufort “ per viam vel formam
“ fimplicis compromiffi.]
[John Stype, alias Stepe, in -
Peter Bene [alias Berne or Bernes, appointed keeper,
and, by lapfe to bifhop Wayneflele, prior] in -
[He refigns in 1468.]
John Morton, [Prior of Reygate] in
[The canons by compromife transfer the power of
eleftion to the bifhop.]
1262.
1271.]
1280.]
1299.
1324.
* 3 3 9 -
1 3 7 7 -
1410.
1411. ]
»454-
1468.
y See, in Letter XI. o f thefe Antiquities, the reafon why prior John - - who had
tranfa&ions with the Knight's Templarsy is placed in the lift before the year 1262.
F f f Will.