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tion of it to the college, which soon after appoints attorneys to take 

 possession, September 24, 1484. But the way to give the reader 

 a thorough insight respecting this transaction, will be to tran- 

 scribe a farther proportion of the process of the impropriation 

 from the beginning, which will lay open the manner of proceed- 

 ing, and show the consent of the parties. 



IMPROPRIATIO SELBORNE, 1485. 



" Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis, &c. Ricardus Dei 

 gratia prior ecclesie conventualis de Novo Loco, &C. 1 ad univer- 

 sitatem vestre notitie deducimus, &c. quod coram nobis comrais- 

 sario predicto in ecclesia parochial! S t! . Georgii de Essher, diet. 

 Winton. dioc. 3. die August!, A. n. 1485. Indictione tertia 

 pontificat. Innocent!! 8 vi . ann. l mo . judicialiter comparuit 

 venerabilis vir Jacobus Preston, S. T. P. infrascriptus, et exhibuit 

 1 items commissionis quas quidem per magistrum Tliomam 

 Somercotes notarium publictim, &c. legi fecimus, tenorem se- 

 (liientem in se continentes." The same as No. 103, but dated 

 " In manerio nostro de Essher, Augusti, l mo . A. D. 1485, et nostre 

 consec. 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 1484.] " Post quarum literarum lecturam dic- 

 tus rnagister Jacobus Preston, quasdam procuratorias literas 

 mag. Richard! Mayewe presidentis, ut asseruit, collegii beate 

 Marie Magdalene, &c. sigillo rotundo communi, &c. in cera rubea 

 impresso sigillatas realiter exliibuit, &c. et pro eisdem dnis suis, 

 &c. fecit se partem, ac nobis supplicavit ut juxta formam in 



1 Eccleaia Conventualis de Novo Loco was the monastery afterwards called 

 the New Minster, or Abbey of Hyde, in the city of Winchester. Should 

 any intelligent reader wonder to see that the prior of Hyde Abbey was com- 

 missary to the Bishop of Winton, and should conclude that there was a 

 mistake in titles, and that the abbot must have been here meant, he will be 

 pleased to recollect that this person was the second in rank ; for, " next under 

 the abbot, in every abbey, was the prior." Pref. to Notit. Monast. p. xxix. 

 Besides, abbots were great personages, and too high in station to submit to 

 any office under the bishop. 



