3 02 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



animabus omnium benefactorum dicti prioratus et coll. 

 nostri, et omnium fidelium defunctorum. Insuper nos, 

 &c., concedimus eidem ibidem celebranti in sustenta- 

 tionem suam quandam annualem pensionem sive annuita- 

 tem octo librarum, &c. in dicta capella dicti prioratus 

 concedimus duas cameras contiguas 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. 8d. 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. 

 VI IK 360." [viz. 1546.] 



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

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

 canons, and attended only by a priest, who was also a sort 

 of bailiff or woodman, his assistant clerk and his female 

 cook. Owen Oglethorpe, president of Magd. Coll. in the 

 fourth year of Edward VI., viz., 1551, granted an annuity 

 of ten pounds a year for life to Nich. Langrish, who from 

 the preamble, appears then to have been fellow of that 

 society ; but, being now superannuated for business, this 

 pension is granted him for thirty years, if he should live 

 so long. It is said of him -"cum jam sit provectioris etatis 

 quam ut," &c. 



Laurence Stubb, president of Magd. Coll., leased out the 

 Priory lands to John Sharp, husbandman, for the term of 

 twenty years, as early as the seventeenth year of Henry 

 VIII., viz., 1526 : and it appears that Henry Newlyn had 

 been in possession of a lease before, probably towards the 

 end of the reign of Henry VII. Sharp's rent was vi !i . per 

 ann. Regist. B. p. 43. 



By an abstract from a lease lying before me, it appears 

 that Sharp found a house, two barns, a stable, and a duf- 

 house [dove-house] built, and standing on the south side 

 of the old Priory and late in the occupation of Newlyn. 



