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of Oseney, the nuns of Godstow, and other religious houses in 

 Oxfordshire. She died very aged, in the year isoo, 5 and was 

 buried before the high altar in the abbey church of Oseney, 

 at the head of the tomb of Henry d'Oily, under a flat marble, 

 on which was inlaid her portraiture, in the habit of a vowess, 

 engraved on a copper-plate." Edmondson's " History and 

 Genealogical Account of the Grevilles," p. 23. 



NOTES 



1 A chantry was a chapel joined to some cathedral or parish church, and 

 endowed with annual revenues for the maintenance of one or more priests 

 to sing mass daily for the soul of the founder and others. G. W. 



2 For what is said more respecting this chantry, see Letter III. of these 

 Antiquities. Mention is made of a Nicholas Langrish, capellanus de S el- 

 borne, in the time of Henry VIII. Was he chantry-chaplain to Ela Longspee, 

 whose masses were probably continued to the time of the Reformation ? 

 More will be said of this person hereafter. G. W. 



8 Ancient deeds are often dated on a Sunday, having been executed in 

 churches and church-yards for the sake of notoriety, and for the conveniency 

 of procuring several witnesses to attest. G. W. 



4 Ela Longspee, Countess of Salisbury, in 1232 founded a monastery at 

 Lacock, in the county of Wilts, and also another at Hendon, in the county 

 of Somerset, in her widowhood, to the honor of the Blessed Virgin and St. 

 Bernard. CAMDEN. 



6 Thus she survived the foundation of her chantry at Selborne fifteen 

 years. About this lady and her mother consult Dugdale's " Baronage," i. 

 72, 175, 177 ; Dugdale's "Warwickshire," i. 383 ; Leland's "Itin.," ii. 45. 

 G. W. 



LETTER XIII 



THE reader is here presented with the titles of five forms 

 respecting the choosing of a prior. "Charta petens licen- 

 tiam elegendi prelatum a Domino episcopo Wintoniensi : " 

 " Forma licentie concesse : " " Forma decreti post electionem 

 conficiendi : " 108. " Modus procedendi ad electionem per 

 formam scrutinii : " et " Forma ricte presentandi electum." 

 Such evidences are rare and curious, and throw great light 

 upon the general monastico-ecclesiastical history of this king- 

 dom, not yet sufficiently understood. 



Jn the year 1 324 there was an election for a prior at Selborne, 



