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de Esher, diet. Winton. dioc. 3. die Augusti, A.D. 1485. 

 Indictione tertia pontifical. Innocenti 8 vi . ann. i mo . judicia- 

 liter comparuit venerabilis vir Jacobus Preston, S. T. P. in- 

 frascriptus, et exhibuit literas comissionis quas quidem per 

 magistrum Thomam Somercrotes notarium publicum, &c., 

 legi fecimus, tenorem sequentem in se continentes." The 

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

 Augusti i mi . A.D. 1485, et nostre confec. 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 Farnham, Sept. 6th, 

 anno 1434.] " Post quarum literarum lecturam dictus 

 magister Jacobus Preston, quasdam procuratorias literas mag. 

 Richardi Mayhewe 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 ap- 

 pearing " ad instantem petitionem ipsius mag. Jac. Preston, 

 procuratoris, &c., procedendum fore decrevimus vocatis 

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

 actorum nostrorum scribam nominavimus. Consequenter 

 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 comperuit coram nobis, &c., honestus 

 vir Willmus Cowper" proctor 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, " Preston, viva voca," 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 sustentationem 

 ejus, &c., non sumciunt." The commissary, "ad libellan- 

 dum et articulandum in scriptis," adjourned the court 

 to the 5th of August, then to be held again in the parish 

 church of Esher. 



