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infrascriptus, et exliibuit literas commissionis quas quidem 

 per magistrum Thomam Somercotes notarium publicum, &c. 

 legi fecimus, tenorem sequentem in se continentes." The 

 same as No. 103, but dated " In manerio nostro de Essher, 

 August! l mo . A.D. 1485, et nostre consec. 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 1484.] " Post quarum literarum lecturam dictus 

 magister Jacobus Preston, quasdam procuratorias literas 

 mag. Bichardi Mayewe presidentis, 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 suppli- 

 cavit ut juxta formam in eisdem traditam procedere digna- 

 remur, &c" After these proclamations no contradictor or 

 objector appearing " ad instantem petitionem ipsius mag. 

 Jac. Preston, procuratoris, &c. procedendum fore decrevi- 

 mus vocatis jure vocandis; nee non mag. Tho. Somercotes, 

 &c. in actorum nostrorum scribam nominavimus. Conse- 

 quenter 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 comparuit coram nobis, &c. 

 honestus vir Willmus Cowper," proctor for the bishop as 

 patron of the Priory of Selborne, and exhibited his " pro- 

 curatorium, &c." After these were read in the presence 

 of Clyff' and Cowper, " Preston, viva voce," petitioned the 

 commissary to annex and appropriate the Priory of Selborne 

 to the college " propter quod fructus, redditus, et pro- 

 ventus ejusdem coll. adeo tenues sunt et exiles, quod ad 

 sustentationem ejus, &c. non sufnciunt." The commissary, 

 " ad libellandum et articulandum in scrip tis" adjourned 

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

 parish church of Essher. 



W. Cowper being then absent, Radulphus Langley ap- 

 peared for the bishop, and was admitted his proctor. Preston 

 produced his libel or article ' ' in scriptis " for the union, &c. 

 f< et admitti petiit eundem cum effectu ; cujus libelli tenor 



