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per se quam per suos, pro reformatione preraissorum 

 impendebat: et aliquando illius loci prioribus, propter 

 malam et inutilem administrationem, et dispensationem 

 bonorum predict! prioratus, suis demeritis exigentilms, 

 amotis; alios priores in quorum circumspectione et 

 diligentia confidebat, prefecit : quos tainen male se 

 habuisse ac inutiliter administrare, et administrasse, 

 usque ad presentia tempora post debitam investigatio- 

 nem, &c. invenit." So that he despaired, with all his 

 care, "statum ejusdem reparare vel restaurare: et 

 considerata temporis malicia, et preteritis tiinendo, et 

 conjecturando futura, de aliqua bona et sancta reli- 

 gione ejusdem ordinis, &c. juxta piam intentioncm 

 primevi fundatoris ibidem habend. desperatur." 



William Wainfleet, Bishop of Winchester, founded 

 his college of St. Mary Magdalen, in the university of 

 Oxford, in or about the year 1459; but the revenues 

 proving insufficient for so large and noble an establish- 

 ment, 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 inquire 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 farther 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. 



