OF SELBOENE. 501 



26s. 8d. per ann. ad inveniendum unum clericum ad servi- 

 enduni sibi ad altar e, et aliis negotiis necessariis ejus," 

 His wood to be granted him by the president on the pro- 

 gress. 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. 1 Owen Oglethorpe, president, and Magdalen College, 

 in the fourth year of Edward VI., viz. 1551, granted an 

 annuity of ten pounds a year for life to Men. Langrish, 

 who, from the preamble, appears then to have been fellow 

 of that society : but, being now superannuated 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. 1256 : and it appears that Henry Newlyn had 

 been in possession of a lease before, probably towards the 

 end of the reign of Henry VII. Sharp's rent was vi h . per 

 ann. Kegist. B. p. 43. 



By an abstract from a lease lying before me, it appears 

 that Sharp found a house, two barns, a stable, and a duf- 

 house [dove-house], built, and standing on the south side 

 of the old Priory, and late in the occupation of JSTewlyn. 

 In this abstract also are to be seen the names of all the 

 fields, many of which continue the same to this day. 2 Of 



1 This is a clerical error. The text (see last page) is " cum una 

 coquina et cum uno stabulo," with a kitchen and stable. ED. 



2 It may not be amiss to mention here that various names of tithings, 

 farms, fields, woods, &c., which appear in the ancient deeds and evi- 

 dences of several centuries' standing, are still preserved in common use 

 with little or no variation : as Norton, Southington, Durton, Achangre, 

 Blackmore, Bradshot, ^lood, Plestor, &c., &c. At the same time it 

 should be acknowledged that other places have entirely lost their original 



