256 ANTIQUITIES OP SELBORNE. 



annualem redditum sex librarum tresdecim solidorum et quatuor 

 denariorum bone et legalis monete Anglie ad terminum vite prefati 

 Thome" to be paid from the possessions of the college in Basingstoke. 

 " In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum commune presentibus 

 apponimus. Dat. Oxon. in coll. nostro supra dicto primo die mensis 

 Junii anno regis Kicardi tertii 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 nuper 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. " damus et concedimus 

 Nicholao Langrish quandum capellaniam, vel salarium, sive alio quo- 

 cunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu quondam de Selborne pro 

 termino 40 annorum, si tarn 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 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. VIII vi . 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 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, and 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 super- 

 annuated 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 



