ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE, 363 



secundo," viz. 1484. The college, in their grant to Ashforde, style 

 him only capellanus ; but the annuitant very naturally, and with a 

 becoming dignity, asserts his late title in his acquittances, and 

 identifies himself by the addition of the impcr priorem, or late 

 prior. 



As according to the persuasion of the times, the depriving the 

 founder and benefactors of the priory of their masses and services 

 would have been 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 Indulgentiarum" 



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. " damns et conce- 

 dimus Nicholao Langrish quandum capellajiiam, vel salarium, sive 

 alio quocunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu quondam de Selborne 

 pro termino 40 annorum, si tam diu vixerit. Ubi dictus mag. 

 Nicholaus celebrabit pro animabus omnium benefactorum dicti 

 prioratus et coll. nostri, et omnium fidelium defunctorum. 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 

 contiguas ex parte boreali dicte capelle, cum nna coquina, et cum 

 uno stabulo conveniente pro tribus equis, cum pomerio eidem 

 adjacente voc. le Orcheyard Preterea 26s. 8</. per ann. ad in- 

 veniendum 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'. die Julii. an . Hen. VIII vi . 36." [viz. 1546.] 



Here we see the priory in a new light, reduced, as it were, to the 

 btate of a chantry, without prior and without canons, and attended 

 only by a priest, who was also a sort of bailiff or woodman, his assis- 

 tant clerk and his female cook. Owen Cglethorpe, president of 

 Magd. Coll. in the fourth year of Edward VI., viz., 1551, granted 

 an annuity of ten pounds a year for life to Mich. Langrish, who 

 from the preamble, appears then to have been fellow of that society; 

 but, being now superannuated for business, this pension is granted 



