ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. , 363 
secundo,” viz. 1484. The college, in their grant to Ashforde, style 
him only capfedlanus ; but the annuitant very naturally, and with a 
becoming dignity, asserts his late title in his acquittances, and 
identifies himself by the addition of the nuper priorem, or late 
prior. | 
As according to the persuasion of the times, the depriving the 
founder and benefactors of the priory of their masses and services 
would have been deemed the most impious of frauds, Bishop 
Wainfleet, having by statute ordained four obits for himself to be 
celebrated in the chapel of Magdalen College enjoined in one of 
them a special collect for the anniversary of Peter de Rupibus, with 
a particular prayer— Deus Indulgentiarum.” 
The college also sent Nicholas Langrish, who had been a chantry 
priest at Selborne, to celebrate mass for the souls of all that had 
been benefactors to the said priory and college, and for all the 
faithful who had departed this life. 
N. 356. Thomas Knowles, presidens, &c.—‘‘ damus et conce- 
dimus Nicholao Langrish quandum capellaniam, vel salarium, sive 
ulio quocunque nomine censeatur, in pricratu gwondam de Selborne 
pro termino 40 annorum, si tam diu vixerit. Ubi dictus mag. 
Nicholaus celebrabit pro animabus omnium benefactorum dicti 
prioratus et coll. nostri, et omnium fidelium defunctorum. Insuper 
nos, &c., concedimus eidem ibidem celebranti in sustentationem 
suam quandam annualem pensionem sive annuitatem octo librarum, 
&c.—in dicta capella dicti prioratus—concedimus duas cameras 
contiguas ex parte boreali dicte capelle, cum wna coguina, et cum 
uno stabulo conveniente pro tribus equis, cum pomerio eidem 
adjacente voc. le Orcheyard—Preterea 26s. 8¢. per ann. ad in- 
veniendum unum clericum ad serviendum sibi ad altare, et aliis 
hegotiis necessariis ejus.,—His wood to be granted him by the 
president on the progress.— He was not to absent himself beyond a 
certain time; and was to superintend the coppices, wood, and 
hedges.—Dat.. 5°. die,Julu.ans.. Hens VILIN 36°.” | viz. 1546.4 
Here we see the priory in a new light, reduced, as it were, to the 
state of a chantry, without prior and without canons, and attended 
only by a priest, who was also a sort of bailiff or woodman, his assis- 
tant clerk and his female cook. Owen Oglethorpe, president of 
Magd. Coll. in the fourth year of Edward VI., viz., 1551, granted 
an annuity of ten pounds a year for life to Nich. Langrish, who 
from the preamble, appears then to have been fellow of that society; 
but, being now superannuated for business, this pension is granted 
