360
ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE.
list is much corrected and improved, and the reader may depend on its being thenceforward very exact.
A list of the Priors of Selborne Priory, from Brown Willis's "Principals of Religious Houses," with additions within [ ] by the Author.
| [John . . . . was prior, sine dat.]* | |
| Nich. de Cantia el. . . . . . . | 1262 |
| [Peter———was prior in. . . . . . | 1271] |
| [Richard———was prior in. . . . . . | 1280] |
| Will. Basing was prior in. . . . . . | 1299 |
| Walter de Insula el. in. . . . . . | 1324 |
| [Some difficulties and a devolution ; but the election confirmed by Bishop Stratford.] | |
| John de Wintõn. . . . . . | 1339 |
| Thomas Weston. . . . . . | 1377 |
| John Winchester, [Wynchestre] . . . . . . | 1410 |
| [Elected by Bishop Beaufort "per viam vel formam simplicis compromissi."] | |
| [John Stype, alias Stepe, in. . . . . . | 1411] |
| keeper, and, by lapse to Bishop Waynflete, prior] in . . . |
1454 |
| [He resigns in 1468.] | |
| John Morton [Prior of Reygate] in. . . | 1468 |
| [The canons by compromise transfer the power | |
| of election to the bishop.] | |
| Will. Winsor [Wyndesor, prior for a few days] . . | 1471 |
| [But removed on account of an irregular election.] | |
| Thomas Farwill [Fairwise, vicar of Samborne] . . | 1471 |
| [By compromise again elected by the bishop.] | |
| [Peter Berne, re-elected by scrutiny in . . . . | 1472] |
| [Resigns again in 1478.] |
* See, in Letter XL of these Antiquities, the reason why Prior John. . . . who had transactions with the Knights Templars, is placed in the list before the year 1262.
