OF SELBOKNE 307 



As, according to the persuasion of the times, the depriving the 

 founder and benefactors of the Priory of their masses and services 

 would have been deemed the most impious of frauds, bishop Wain- 

 fieet, having by statute ordained four ohits for himself to be cele- 

 brated in the chapel of Magdalen College, enjoined in one of them 

 a special collect for the anniversary of Peter de Rupibus, with a 

 particular prayer — " Deus Indulgentiarum ". 



The college also sent Nicholas Langrish, who had been a chantry 

 priest at Selbome, 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 concedi- 

 "mus Nicholao Langrish quandum capellaniam, vel salarium, sive 

 " alio quocunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu quondam de Selborne 

 " pro' termino 40 annorum, si tam diu vixerit. Ubi dictus mag'. 

 " Nicholaus celebrabit pro animabus omnium benefactorum dicti 

 "prioratus et coll. nostri, et omnium fidelium defunctorum. 

 " Insuper nos, &c. concedimus eidem ibidem celebranti in sus- 

 " tentationem 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 

 " coquina, et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro tribus equis, cum 

 "pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard — Preterea 26s. 8d. 

 " per ann. ad inveniendum unum clericum ad serviendum sibi ad 

 "altare, et aliis negotiis necessariis ejus." — His wood to be granted 

 him by the president on the progress. — He was not to absent 

 himself beyond a certain time ; and was to superintend the coppices, 



wood, and hedges. "Dat. .')*<'. die Julii. an°. Hen. VIII". 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 at- 

 tended only by a priest, who was also a sort of bailiff or woodman, 

 his assistant clerk, and his female cook.i Owen Oglethorpe, president, 

 and Magd. Coll. in the fourth year oi Edward VI. viz. 155] , granted 

 an annuity of ten pounds a year for life to Nich. 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 



1 [Coquina means a kitchen, not a female cook.] 



