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The college, in their grant to Ashforde, style him only capel- 

 lanus ; but the annuitant very naturally, and with a becoming 

 dignity, asserts his late title in his acquittances, and identifies 

 himself by the addition of the nuper prior em, or late prior. 



As, according to the persuasion of the times, the depriving 

 the founder and benefactors of the Priory of their masses and 

 services 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 " Deus In- 

 dulgentiarum" 



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 sala- 

 rium, sive alio quocunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu quon- 

 dam de Selborne pro termino 40 annorum, si tarn diu vixerit. 

 Ubi dictus mag. Nicholaus celebrabit pro animabus omnium 

 benef actorum dicti prioratus et coll. nostri, et omnium fidelium 

 defunctorum. Insuper nos, &c., concedimus eidem ibidem cele- 

 branti in sustentationem suam quandam annualem pensionem 

 sive annuitatem octo librarum, &c. in dicta capella dicti 

 prioratus concedimus duas cameras contiguas ex parte bo- 

 reali dicte capelle, cum una coquina, et cum uno stabulo con- 

 veniente pro tribus equis, cum pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le 

 Orcheyard Preterea 26s. 8d. per ann. ad inveniendum unum 

 clericum ad serviendum sibi ad altare, et aliis negotiis neces- 

 sariis 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 coppices, wood, and 

 hedges. Dat. 5 to . die Julii. an . Hen. VIII vi . 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 

 woodman, his assistant clerk, and his female cook. Owen 



