OF SELBORNE. C09 



IMPROPRIATIO SELBORNE, 1485. 



" Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis, &c. Ricar- 

 dus Dei gratia prior ecclesie conventualis de Novo 

 Loco, &C. 1 ad universitatem vestre notitie deducimus, 

 &c. quod coram nobis commissario predicto in ecclesia 

 parochiali S li . Georgii de Essher, diet. Winton. dioc. 3. 

 die Augusti, A. D. 1485, indictione tertia pontificat. 

 Innocentii 8 vi . ann. l mo . judicialiter comparuit venera- 

 bilis vir Jacobus Preston, S. T. P. infrascriptus, et 

 exhibuit literas commissionis quas quid em per niagis- 

 trum Thomara Somercotes notarium publicum, &c. legi 

 fecimus, tenorem sequentem in se continentes." The 

 same as No. 103, but dated " In manerio nostro de 

 Essher, Augusti l mo A. D. 1485, et nostre consec. anno 

 39." [No. 103 is repeated in a book containing the like 

 process in the preceding year by the same commissary, 

 in the parish church of St. Andrew the apostle, at Farn- 

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

 lecturam dictus magister Jacobus Preston, quasdarn 

 procuratorias literas mag. Richardi Mayewe presidents, 

 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 supplicavit ut juxta formam in 

 eisdem traditam procedere dignaremur, &c." After these 

 proclamations no contradictor or objector appearing 

 "ad instantem petitionem ipsius mag. Jac. Preston, 

 procuratoris, &c. procedendum fore decrevimus vocatis 



1 Ecclesia 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 

 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 station to submit to any office under the bishop. 



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