368 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



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 " Dens 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, etc. " damus et con- 

 cedimus Nicholao Langrish quandum capellaniam, vel salarium, 

 sive alio quocunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu quondam de 

 Selborne pro termino 40 annorum, si tarn 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 susten- 

 tationem suam quandam annual em pensionem sive annuitatem 

 octo librarum, &c. in dicta capella dicti prioratus concedimus 

 duas cameras contiguas ex parte boreali dicte capelle, cum una 

 coquina, et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro tribus equis, cum 

 pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard Preterea 265. 8d. 

 per ann. ad inveniendum unum clericum ad serviendum sibi ad 

 altare, et aliis negotiis 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 cop- 

 pices, wood, and hedges. Dat. 5*. die Julii. an . Hen. VIII". 

 36." [viz. 1546.] 



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 wood- 

 man, his assistant clerk, and his female cook. Owen Oglethorpe, 

 president, and 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 him for thirty years, if he should live so long. 

 It is said of him "cum jam sit provectioris etatis qua mut," etc. 



