OF SELBORNE 301 



" was a great benefactress to the university of Oxford, to 

 the canons of Oseney, the nuns of Godstow, and other 

 religious houses in Oxfordshire. She died very aged in the 

 year 1 300,^ and was buried before the high altar in the abbey 

 church of Oseney, at the head of the tomb of Henry D'Oily, 

 under a flat marble, on which was inlaid her portraiture, 

 in the habit of a vowess, engraved on a copper-plate." — 

 Edmonson's History and Genealogical Account of the 

 Grevilles, p. 23. 



LETTER XIII 



The reader is here presented with five forms respecting 

 the choosing of a prior ; but as they are of some length 

 they must be reserved for the Appendix ; their titles 

 are No. 108. " Charta petens licentiam elegendi prelatum 

 a Domino episcopo Wintoniensi " : — " Forma licentie 

 concesse": — "Forma decreti post electionem conficiendi": 

 — 108. "Modus procedendi ad electionem per for mam 

 scrutinii" : — et "Forma ricte presentandi electum." Such 

 evidences are rare and curious, and throw great light upon 

 the general monastico-ecclesiastical history of this king- 

 dom, not yet sufficiently understood. 



In the year 1324 there was an election for a prior at 

 Selborne ; when some difficulties occurring, and a devolu- 

 tion taking place, application was made to Stratford, who 

 was bishop of Winchester at that time, and of course 

 the visitor and patron of the convent at the spot above- 

 mentioned.* 



An extract from Reg. Stratford. Winton. 

 P. 4. " Commissio facta sub-priori de Selebourne " by 

 the bishop enjoining him to preserve the discipline of 



'Thus she survived the foundation of her chantry at Selborne fifteen 

 years. About this lady and her mother consult Dugdale's Baronage, I. 

 72, 175, 177. — Dugdale's Warwickshire, I. 383, — Leland's Itin. II. 45. 



^Stratford was bishop of Winchester from 1323 to 1333, when he was 

 translated to Canterbury. 



