ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 389 



of the Priory of Selborne. The extract is taken from an attested 

 copy. 



" Item that the said bishop dicto prioratui et personis ejus- 

 dem pie compatiens, sollicitudines pastorales, labores, et diligen- 

 tias gravissimas quam plurimas, tarn per se quam per suos, pro 

 reformatione premissorum impendebat: et aliquando illius loci 

 prioribus, propter malam et inutilem administrationem, et dis- 

 pensationem bonorum predict! prioratus, suis demeritis exigen- 

 tibus, amotis ; alios priores in quorum circumspectione et 

 diligentia confidebat, prefecit : quos tamen male se habuisse ac 

 inutiliter administrare, et administrasse, usque ad presentia 

 tempora post debitam investigationem, &c. invenit." So that he 

 despaired with all his care " statum ejusdem reparare vel 

 restaurare : et considerata temporis malicia, et preteritis timendo 

 et conjecturando futura, de aliqua bona et sancta religione ejus- 

 dem ordinis, &c. juxta piam intentionem primevi fundatoris 

 ibidem habend. desperatur." 



William Wainfleet, bishop of Winchester, founded his college 

 of Saint Mary Magdalene, in the university of Oxford, in or 

 about the year 1459; but the revenues proving insufficient for 

 so large and noble an establishment, the college supplicated the 

 founder to augment its income by putting it in possession of the 

 estates belonging to the Priory of Selborne, now become a de- 

 serted convent, without canons or prior. The president and 

 fellows state the circumstances of their numerous institution and 

 scanty provision, and the ruinous and perverted condition of the 

 Priory. The bishop appoints commissaries to enquire into the 

 state of the said monastery ; and, if found expedient, to confirm 

 the appropriation 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 transcribe a further proportion of the process of the 

 impropriation from the beginning, which will lay open the 

 manner of proceeding, 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.* ad univer- 



* Kcclesia 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 commissary to the bishop of Winton, and should conclude that 



