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" commissario predicto in ecclesia parochial! S w Georgii de 

 " Essher, diet. Winton. dioc. 3. die Augusti, A. D. 1485. 

 " Indictione tertia pontificat. Innocentii 8 vi . ann. l mo . judi- 

 " cialiter comparuit venerabilis vir Jacobus Preston, S. T. P. 

 t( infrascriptus, et exhibuit literas commissionis quas quidem 

 " per magistrum Thomam Somercotes notarium publicum, &c. 

 " legi fecimus, tenorem sequentem in se continentes." The same 

 as N 103, but dated " In manerio nostro de Essher, Augusti 

 " l mo , A.D. 1485, et nostre consec. anno 39." [N 103 is re- 

 peated 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 1484.] " Postbnarum 

 " literarum lecturam dictus magister Jacobus Preston, quas- 

 " dam procuratorias literas mag. Richardi May ewe presidentis, 

 " ut asseruit, collegii beate Marie Magdalene, &c. sigillo rotundo 

 " communi, &c. in cera rubea impresso sigillatas realiter ex- 

 (t hibuit, &c. et pro eisdem dnis suis, &c. fecit se partem, ac 

 " nobis supplicavit ut juxta formam in eisdem traditam pro- 

 " cedere dignaremur, &c." After these proclamations no con- 

 tradictor or abjector appearing "ad instantem petitionem 

 " ipsius mag. Jac. Preston, procuratoris, &c. procedendum fore 

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

 " cotes, &c. in actorum nostrorum scribam nominavimus. 

 " Consequeuter 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 Selborne, and exhibited his " procura- 

 " torium, &c." After these were read in the presence of Clyff 

 and Cowper, u Preston, viva voce," petitioned the commissary 

 to annex and appropriate the Priory of Selborne to the col- 

 lege " propter quod fructus, redditus, et proventus ejusdem 

 li coll. adeo tenues sunt, et exiles, quod ad sustentationem 

 " ejus, &c. non sufficiunt." The commissary, " ad libellan- 

 " dum et articulandum in scrip tis " adjourned the court to 

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

 of Essher. 



