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concessisse, et hoc present! scripto confirmasse Thome Ash- 

 forde, capellano, quendam 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. 

 tf In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum commune pre- 

 sentibus apponimias. Dat. Oxon. in coll. nostro supradicto 

 prime die mensis Junii anno regis Ricardi 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 acquit- 

 tances, and identifies himself by the addition otnuperpriorem, 

 or late prior. 



As, according to the persuasion of the times, the de- 

 priving 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 par- 

 ticular 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 quandam capellaniam, vel 

 salarium, sive alio quocunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu 

 quondam de Selborne pro termino 40 annorum, si tarn diu 

 vixerit. Ubi dictus mag r . Nicholaus celebrabit pro anima- 

 bus omnium benefactorum dicti prioratus et coll. nostri, et 

 omnium fidelium defunctorum, &c. Insuper nos, &c. con- 

 cedimus 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 

 coqiiina, et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro tribus equis, 

 cum pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard Preterea 



