OF SELBOENE. 453 



of high, birth and rank, and became countess to Thomas de 

 Newburgh, the sixth Earl of Warwick : she was the second 

 daughter of the famous Ela Longspee, Countess of Salis- 

 bury, by William Longspee, natural son of King Henry II. 

 by Rosamond. 



Our lady, following the steps of her illustrious mother, 1 

 " was a great benefactress to the university of Oxford, to 

 the canons of Oseney, the nuns of Godstow, and other 

 religious houses in Oxfordshire. She died very aged in 

 the year 1300,' 2 and was buried before the high altar in the 

 abbey church of Oseney, at the head of the tomb of Henry 

 D'Oily, under a flat marble, on which was inlaid her portrai- 

 ture, in the habit of a vowess, engraved on a copper- plate/ 1 

 Edmonson's " History and Genealogical Account of the 

 Grevilles/' p. 23. 



LETTER XIII. 



HE reader is here presented with five forms 

 respecting the choosing 1 of a prior, but as 

 they are of some length they must be reserved 

 for the Appendix; 3 their titles are No. 108, 

 (t Charta petens licentiam eligendi prelatum 

 a Domino episcopo Wintoniensi : " ' ' Forma licentie con- 



1 Ela Lonsgpee, Countess of Salisbury, in 1232, founded a monastery 

 at Lacock, in the county of Wilts, and also another at Hendon, in the 

 county of Somerset, in her widowhood, to the honour of the Blessed 

 Virgin and St. Bernard. (CAMDEN.) Gr. W. 



2 Thus she survived the foundation of her chantry at Selborne fifteen 

 years. About this lady and her mother consult Dugdale's " Baronage," 

 i. 72, 175, 177. Dug-dale's " Warwickshire," i. 383. Leland's " Itin." 

 ii. 45. G. W. 



3 (Appendix, No. 108.) 



Carta petens licentiam eligendi prelatum a Domino Episcopo Wintoniensi. 



Defuncto prelato forma petendi licentiam eligendi. 

 "Domino et patri in Christo reverendo domino & P. Dei gratia Win- 

 toniensi episcopo, devoti sui filii supprior monasterii de S. Wintouiensis 



