390 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



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

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

 Winton. dioc. 3. die Augusti, A. D. 1485. Indictione tertia 

 pontificat. Innocentii 8 vi . ann. l mo . judicialiter comparuit vene- 

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

 literas commissionis quas quidem per magistrum Thomam 

 Somercotes notarium publicum, &c. legi fecirnus, tenorem se- 

 quentem in se continentes." The same as N. 103, but dated 

 " In manerio nostro de Essher, Augusti, l^o. A. D. 1485, et 

 nostre consec. anno 39." [N 103 is repeated in a book contain- 

 ing the like process in the preceding year by the same commis- 

 sary, in the parish church of St. Andrew the apostle, at Farnham, 

 Sept. 6th, anno 1484.] "Post quarum literarum lecturam 

 dictus magister Jacobus Preston, quasdam procuratorias literas 

 mag. Richardi Mayewe presidentis, ut asseruit, collegii beate 

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



rubea impresso sigillatas realiter exhibuit, &c. et pro eisdem dnis 

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

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

 clamations no contradictor or objector appearing "ad instantem 

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

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

 Somercotes, &c. in actorum nostrorum scribam 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 Winton, " et fecit se partem pro 

 eisdem. Deinde comperuit 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, reddi- 

 tus, et proventus ejusdem coll. adeo tenues sunt, et exiles, quod 

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

 " ad libellandum et articulandum in scriptis" adjourned the 

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

 church of Esher. 



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 siatiou to submit to any office under the bishop. 



