OF SELBORNE. 565 



there is the more reason to suppose as much, because, 

 till within these thirty years, this space was fenced off 

 with Gothic wooden railing, and was known by the 

 name of the south chancel 2 . 



The solicitude expressed by the donor plainly shows 

 her piety and firm persuasion of the efficacy of prayers 

 for the dead ; for she seems to have made every provi- 

 sion for the payment of the sum stipulated within the 

 appointed time ; and to have felt much anxiety lest her 

 death, or the neglect of her executors or assigns, might 

 frustrate her intentions. " Et si contingat me in solu- 

 cione predicte pecunie annis predictis in parte aut in 

 toto deficere, quod absit ; concedo et obligo pro me et 



assignatis meis, quod Vice-Comes... Oxon et qui 



pro tempore fuerint, per omnes terras et tenementa, et 

 omnia bona mea mobilia et immobilia ubicunque in 

 balliva sua fuerint inventa ad solucionem predictam 

 faciendam possent nos compellere." And again " Et 

 si contingat dictos religiosos labores seu expensas 

 facere circa predictam pecuniam, seu circa partem dicte 

 pecunie; volo quod dictorum religiosorum impense et 

 labores levantur ita quod predicto priori vel uni cano- 

 nicorum suorum super hiis simplici verbo credatur sine 

 alterius honere probacionis ; et quod utrique predic- 

 torum virorum in unam marcam argenti pro cujuslibet 

 distrincione super me facienda tenear. Dat. apud 

 Wareborn die sabati proxima ante festum St. Marci 

 evangeliste, anno regni regis Edwardi tertio decimo 3 ." 



But the reader perhaps would wish to be better 

 informed respecting this benefactress, of whom as yet 

 he has heard no particulars. 



2 For what is said more respecting this chantry see Letter III. of 

 these Antiquities. Mention is made of a Nicholas Langrish, capellanus 

 de Selborne, in the time of Henry VIII. Was he chantry-chaplain to 

 Ela Longspee, whose masses were probably continued to the time of the 

 reformation? More will be said of this person hereafter. 



3 Ancient deeds are often dated on a Sunday, having been executed 

 in churches and churchyards for the sake of notoriety, and for the conve- 

 nieucy of procuring several witnesses to attest. 



