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jure vocandis ; nee non mag. Tho. Somercotes, &c. in 

 actorum nostrorura scribam nominavimus. Conse- 

 quenter 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 comparuit 

 coram nobis, &c. honestus vir Willmus Cowper," proc- 

 tor 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, " Pres- 

 ton, viva voce," petitioned the commissary to annex 

 and appropriate the Priory of Selborne to the college 

 " propter quod fructus, redditus, et proventus ejusdem 

 coll. adeo tenues sunt et exiles, quod ad sustentatio- 

 nem 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 Essher. 



W. Cowper being then absent, Radulphus Langley 

 appeared for the bishop, and was admitted his proctor. 

 Preston produced his libel or article " in scriptis " for 

 the union, &c. " et admitti petiit eundem cum eflfectu ; 

 cujus libelli tenor sequitur. In Dei nomine, Amen. 

 Coram nobis venerabili in Christo patre Richardo, priore, 

 &c. de Novo Loco, &c. commissario, &c." On the part 

 of the college of Magd. dicit, allegat, and in his "scriptis 

 proponit, &c." 



" Imprimis that said college consists of a president 

 and eighty scholars, besides sixteen choristers, thirteen 

 servientes inibi altissimo famulantibus, et in scientiis 

 plerisque liberalibus, presertim in sacra theologia stu- 

 dentibus, nedum ad ipsorum presidentis et scholarium 

 pro presenti et impostemm, annuente deo, incorporan- 

 dorum in eodem relevamen; verum etiam ad omnium 

 et singulorum tarn scholarium quam religiosorum cujus- 

 cunque ordinis undequaque illuc confluere pro salubri 

 doctrina volentium utilitatem multiplicem, ad incre- 

 menta virtutis fideique catholice stabilimentum. Ita 



