XXV.] OF SELBORNE. 235 



Ashforde, the deposed prior, who had appeared as an evidence 

 for the inipropriation of the Priory at the age of seventy-two 

 years, that he might not be destitute of a maintenance, was pen- 

 sioned by the college to the day of his death ; and was living 

 on till 1490, as appears by his acquittances. 



REG. A. ff. 46. 



" Omnibus Christi fidelilms ad quos presens scriptum perven- 

 erit, Richardus Mayew, presidens, &c. et scolares, saiutem in 

 I >nmino. 



" Xoveritis nos prefatos presidentem et scolares dedisse, con- 

 ccssisse, et hoc .present! scripto confirmasse Thome Ashforde, 

 capellttno, quendam annualem redditum sex librarum tresdecim 

 solidorum et quatuor denariorum bone et legalis monete Anglie 

 ad terininnm vite prefati Thome " to be paid from the pos- 

 sessions of the college in Basingstoke. " In cujus rei testuno- 

 niuin sigillum nostrum commune presentibus apponimus. Dat. 

 Oxon. in coll. nostro supra dicto primo die nieusis Junii anno 

 regis Ricardi tertii secundo, viz. 1484. The college, in their 

 grant to Ashforde, style him only capellanus ; but the annuitant 

 very naturally, and with a becoming dignity, asserts his late 

 title in his acquittances, and identifies himself by the addition 

 of nuper priorem, 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 him- 

 self to be celebrated in the chapel of Magdalen College, en- 

 joined in one of them a special collect for the anniversary of 

 Peter de Rupibus, with a particular prayer " Dcus Indulgentia- 

 /n/ii." 



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 Kuowles, presidens, &c. " damns et con- 



