OP SELBORNE. 615 



As, according to the persuasion of the times, the 

 depriving the founder and benefactors of the Priory of 

 their masses and services would have beep deemed the 

 most impious of frauds, Bishop Wainfleet, having by 

 statute ordained four obits for himself to be celebrated 

 in the chapel of Magdalen College, enjoined in one of 

 them a special collect for the anniversary of Peter de 

 Rupibus, with a particular prayer " Deus Indulgentia- 

 rum." 



The college also sent Nicholas Langrish, who had 

 been a chantry priest at Selborne, to celebrate mass 

 for the souls of all that had been benefactors to the said 

 Priory and college, and for all the faithful who had 

 departed this life. 



N. 356. Thomas Knowles, presidens, &c. " damus 

 et concedimus Nicholao Langrish quandam capella- 

 niam, vel salarium, sive alio quocunque nomine censea- 

 tur, in prioratu quondam de Selborne pro termino 40 

 annorum, si tarn diu vixerit. Ubi dictus mag r . Nicho- 

 laus celebrabit pro animabus omnium benefactorum 

 dicti prioratus et coll.nostri, et omnium fidelium defunc- 

 torum, &c. Insuper nos, &c. concedimus eidem ibidem 

 celebranti in sustentationem suam quandam annualem 

 pensionem sive annuitatem octo librarum, &c. in dicta 

 capella dicti prioratus concedimus duas cameras con- 

 tiguas ex parte boreali dicte capelle, cum una coquina, 

 et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro tribus equis, cum 

 pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard Preterea 

 26s. Sd. per ann. ad inveniendum unum clericum ad 

 serviendum sibi ad altare, et aliis negotiis necessariis 

 ejus." His wood to be granted him by the president 

 on the progress. He was not to absent himself beyond 

 a certain time ; and was to superintend the coppices, 

 wood, and hedges." Dat. 5 to . die Julii. an . Hen. VHP 1 . 

 36." [viz. 1546.] 



Here we see the Priory in a new light, reduced as it 

 were to the state of a chantry, without prior and with- 



