3Q4 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBOBNE. 



unione Prioratus de Selborne dicto collegio. Jan. 2, 1487, et 

 translat. anno 1." 



N. 374. " Relaxatio prioris et conventus Sti Swithini Winton 

 confirrnans relaxationem Petri ep. Winton." 1487. Jan. 13. 



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

 for the impropriation 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 fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum per- 

 venerit, Richardus Mayew, presidens, &c. et scolares, salutem in 

 Domino." 



" Noveritis nos prefatos presidentem et scolares dedisse, con- 

 cessisse, et hoc presenti scripto confirmasse Thome Ashforde, 

 capellano, quendam annualem redditum sex librarum tresdecim 

 solidorum et quatuor denariorum bone et legalis monete Anglic 

 ad terminum vite prefati Thorne" to be paid from the posses- 

 sions of the college in Basingstoke. " In cujus rei testimonium 

 sigillum nostrum commune presentibus apponimus. Dat. Oxon. 

 in coll. nostro supra dicto primo die mensis Junii anno regis 

 Ricardi tertii seucndo," 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, enjoined 

 in one of them a special collect for the anniversary of Peter de 

 Rupibus, with a particular prayer " Deus Indulgentiarum." 



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 Knowles, presidens, &c. "damus et con- 

 cedimus Nicholao Langrish quandum capellaniam, vel salarium, 

 give alio quocunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu quondam de 



