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

 tertia pontificat. Innocenti 8 . ann. i mo . judicialiter comparuit 

 venerabilis vir Jacobus Preston, S.T.P. infrascriptus, et exhi- 

 buit literas comissionis quas quidem per magistrum Thomam 

 Somercotes 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 pro- 

 curatorias literas mag. Richardi Mayhewe presidents, ut 

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

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

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

 nobis supplicavit ut juxta formam in eisdem traditam procedere 

 dignaremur," &c. After these proclamations no contradictor 

 or objector appearing " ad instantem petitionem ipsius mag. 

 Jac. Preston, procuratoris, &c., procedendum fore decrevimus 

 vocatis jure vocandis ; nee non mag. Tho. Somercotes, &c., in 

 actorum nostrorum scribam nominavimus. Consequenter 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 Cow- 

 per," proctor for the bishop as patron of the Priory of Selborne, 

 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 pro- 

 duced his libel or article in scriptis for the union, &c. ; " et 



