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cedimus Nicholao Langrish quandum capellaniam, vel salariiim, 

 sive alio quocunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu quondam de 

 Selborne pro termino 40 annorum, si tarn diu vixerit. Ubi dic- 

 tis mag r . Nicholaus celebrabit pro animabus omnium benefac- 

 toruni dicti prioratus et coll. nostri, et omnium fidelium defunc- 

 torum. Insuper nos, &c. concedimus eidem ibidem celebrant! 

 in sustentationem suam quandam annualem pensionem sive 

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

 concedimus duas cameras contiguas ex parte boreali dicte 

 capelle, cum una coguina, et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro 

 tribus equis, cum pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard 

 Preterea 26s. 8^. per ann. ad inveniendum unum clericxim ad 

 serviendum sibi ad altare, et aliis negotiis necessariis 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'. 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 wood- 

 man, his assistant clerk, and his female cook. Owen Oglethorpe, 

 president, and Magd. Coll. in the fourth year of Edward VI. viz. 

 1551, granted an annuity of ten pounds a year for life to Nich. 

 Langrish, who, from the preamble, appears then to have been 

 fellow of that society : but, being now superannuated for busi- 

 ness, this pension is granted him for thirty years, if he should 

 live so long. It is said of him " cum jam sit provectioris etatis 

 quam ut," &c. 



Laurence Stubb, president of Magd. Coll. leased out the 

 Priory lands to John Sharp, husbandman, for the term of twenty 

 years, as early as the seventeenth year of Henry VIII. viz. 

 1526 : and it appears that Henry Newlyn had been in posses- 

 sion of a lease before, probably towards the end of the reign 

 of Henry VII. Sharp's rent was v! H . per annum. Eegist. B. 

 p. 43. 



By an abstract from a lease lying before me, it appears that 

 Sharp found a house, two barns, a stable, and a duf-house [dove- 

 house], built, and standing on the south side of the old Priory, 



