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Diet. Winton. dioc. 3. die Augusti, A.D. 1485; Indictione 

 tertia pontifical. Innocenti 8 . ann. i m . judicialiter comparuit 

 venerabilis vir Jacobus Preston, S. T. P. infrascriptus, et exhibuit 

 literas comissionis quas quidem per magistrum Thomam Somer- 

 crotes notarium publicum, &c., legi fecimus, tenorem sequentem 

 in se continentes." The same as in No. 103, but dated " In 

 manerio nostro de Esher, Augusti i . A.D. 1485, et nostre 

 confec. anno. 39." [No 103 is repeated in a book containing the 

 like process in the preceding year by the same commissary, in 

 the parish church of St. Andrew the Apostle, at Farnham, Sept. 

 6th, anno 1434.] "Post quarum literarum lecturam dictus 

 magister Jacobus Preston, quasdam procuratorias literas mag. 

 Richardi Mayhewe presidentis, ut asseruit, collegii beate Marie 

 Magdalene, &c., sigillo rotundo communi, &c., in cera rubea 

 impresso sigillatas realiter exhibuit, &c., et pro eisdem dnis suis 

 &c., fecit se partem, ac nobis supplicavit ut juxta formam in 

 eisdem traditam procedere dignaremur," &c. After these procla- 

 mations no contradictor or objector appearing " ad instantem pe- 

 titionem ipsius mag. Jac. Preston, procuratoris, &c., procedendum 

 fore decrevimus vocatis jure vocandis ; nee non mag. Tho. Somer- 

 cotes, &c., in actorum nostrorum scribam nominavimus. Conse- 

 quenter et ibidem tune comparuit magister Michael Clyff, &c., et 

 exhibuit in ea parte procuratorium suum," for the prior and 

 convent of the cathedral of Winton, " et fecit se partem pro 

 eisdem. Deinde comperuit coram nobis, &c., honestus vir Willmus 

 Cowper," proctor for the bishop as patron of the Priory of Sel- 

 borne, and exhibited his " procuratorium," &c. After these were 

 read in the presence of Clyff and Cowper, " Preston, viva voce," 

 petitioned the commissary to annex and appropriate the Priory 

 of Selborne to the college "propter quod fructus, redditus, et 

 proventus ejusdem coll. adeo tenues sunt, et exiles, quod ad 

 sustentationem ejus, &c., non sufficiunt." The commissary, "ad 

 libellandum et articulandum in scriptis," adjourned the court to 

 the 5th August, then to be held again in the parish church of Esher. 

 W. Cowper being then absent, Radulphus Langley appeared for 

 the bishop, and was admitted his proctor. Preston produced his 

 libel or article in scriptis for the union, &c. ; " et admitti petiit 



