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eisdem traditam procedere dignaremur, &c." After these procla- 

 iiwtions no contradictor or abjector appearing " ad instantem 

 petitionem ipsius mag. Jac. Preston, procuratoris, &c. procedeu- 

 dum fore decrevimus vocatis jure vocandis ; nee non mag. Tlio. 

 Somercotes, &c. in actorum nostrorum acribam 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 \Vinton, " et fecit se partem pro 

 eisdera. Deinde coinperuit coram nobis, &c. honestus vir 

 Willmus Cowper," 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, rcd- 

 ditus, et proveutus ejnadem coll. adeo tenues sunt, et exiles, quod 

 ad sustentationem ejus, &c. non sufficiunt." The commissary, 

 " ad libellandum et articulandum in scriptfs "adjourned the 

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

 church of Essher. 



W. Cowper being then absent, Eadulphus Langley appeared 

 for the bishop, and was admitted his proctor. Preston produced 

 his libel or article in scriptis for the union, &c. " et admitti petiit 

 eundem cum effectu; cujus libelli tenor sequitur. In Dei 

 nomine, Amen. Coram nobis venerabili in Christo patre Rich- 

 ardo, priore, &c. de ISTovo Loco, &c. commissario, &c." Part of 

 the college of Magd. dicit. allegat. and in his "scriptis proponit" 

 &c. 



" Imprimis " that said college consists of a president and 

 eighty scholars, besides sixteen choristers, thirteen "servientes 

 inibi altissimo famulantibus, et in scientiis plerisque liberalibus, 

 presertim in sacra theologia studentibus, nedum ad ipsorum pre- 

 sidentis et scholarium pro presenti et irnposterum, annuente deo, 

 incorporandorum in eodem relevamen ; verum etiam ad omnium 

 et singulorum tarn scholarium quam religiosorum cujuscunque 

 ordinis undequaque illuc confluere pro salubri doctrina volentium 

 utilitatem multiplicem ad incrementa virtutis fideique catholice 

 stabilimentum. Ita videlicet quod omnes et singuli absque 

 personarum seu nationum delectu illuc accedere volentes, lecturas 



