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from all actions respecting the Priory of Selborne ; and 

 the prior and convent of St. Swithun, as the chapter of 

 Winchester cathedral, confirmed^ the release 1 . 



N. 293. " Relaxatio Petri epi Winton Ricardo Ma- 

 yew President!, omnium actionum occasione indempni- 

 tatis sibi debite pro unione Prioratus de Selborne dicto 

 collegio. Jan. 2. 1487. et translat. anno IV 



N. 374. " Relaxatio prioris et conventusjs* Swithini 

 Winton confirmans 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 pensioned 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 

 pervenerit, Richardus Mayew, presidens, &c. et scolares,, 

 salutem in Domino." 



" Noveritis nos prefatos presidentem et scolares de- 

 disse, concessisse, et hoc present! scripto conflrmasse 

 Thome Ashforde, capellano y quendam annualem reddi- 

 tum sex librarum tresdecim solidorum et quatuor dena- 

 riorum bone et legalis monete Anglie ad terminum 

 vite prefati Thome" to be paid from the possessions 

 of the college in Basingstoke. " In cujus rei testimo- 

 nium sigillum nostrum commune presentibus apponimus. 

 Dat. Oxon. in coll. nostro supradicto primo die mensis 

 Junii anno regis Ricardi tertii secundo," viz. 1484. The 

 college, in their grant to Ashforde, style him only capel- 

 lanus ; but the annuitant very naturally, and with a 

 becoming dignity, asserts his late title in his acquit- 

 tances, and identifies himself by the addition of nuper 

 priorem, or late prior. 



1 The bishops of Winchester were patrons of the Priory. 



