496 ANTIQUITIES 



sequitur. In Dei nomine, Amen. Coram nobis venerabih 

 in Christo patre Bichardo, priore, &c. de Novo Loco, &c. 

 commissario, &c." On the part of the college of Magd. 

 dicit, allegat, and in his " scriptis proponit, &c." 



' ' Imprimis that said college consists of a president and 

 eighty scholars, besides sixteen choristers,thirteen servientes 

 inibi altissimo famulantibus, et in scientiis plerisque libera- 

 libus, presertim in sacra theologia studentibus, nedum ad 

 ipsorum presidentis et scholarium pro presenti et imposte- 

 rum, annuente deo, incorporandorum in eodem relevamen ; 

 verum etiam ad omnium et singulorum tarn scholarium quam 

 religiosorum cujuscunque ordinis undequaque illuc confluere 

 pro salubri doctrina volentium utilitatem multiplicem, ad 

 incrementa virtutis fideique catholice stabilimentum. Ita 

 videlicet quod omnes et singuli absque personarum seu 

 nationum delectu illuc accedere volentes, lecturas publicas 

 et doctrinas tarn in grammatica, loco ad collegium contiguo, 

 ac philosophiis morali et naturali, quam in sacra theologia 

 in eodem collegio perpetuis temporibus continuandas libere 

 atque gratis audire valeant et possint, ad laudern gloriam et 

 honorem Dei, &c. extitit fundatum et stabilituin." 



For the first item in this process see the beginning of 

 this letter. Then follows item the second "that the 

 revenues of the college non sufficiunt his diebus." "Item 

 that the premisses are true, &c. ut super eisdem labora- 

 runt, et laborant publica vox et fama. Unde facta fide 

 petit pars eorundem that the Priory be annexed to the 

 college : ita quod dicto prioratu vacante liccat iis ex tune 

 to take possession, &c" This libel, with the express con- 

 sent of the other proctors, we, the commissary, admitted, 

 and appointed the 6th of August for Preston to prove the 

 premisses. 



Preston produced witnesses, W. Gyfford, S. T. P., John 

 Nele, A. M., John Chapman, chaplain, and Robert Baron, 

 literatus, who were admitted and sworn, when the court was 

 prorogued to the 6th of August ; and the witnesses, on the 

 same 6th of August, were examined by the commissary, 

 "in capella infra manerium de Essher situata, secrete et 

 eingillatim:" Then follow the " liters procuratorise : " first 



