334 THE ANTIQUITIES 



ad universitatem vestre notitie deducimus, &c. quod coram 

 nobis commissario predicto in ecclesia parochiali S" Georgii 

 de Essher, diet. Winton. dioc. 3° die Augusti, a.d. 

 1485. Indictione tertia pontificat. Innocentii 8". ann. 

 1"°°. judicialiter comparuit venerabilis vir Jacobus Preston, 

 S. T. P. infrascriptus, et exhibuit literas commissionis — 

 quas quidem per magistrum Thomam Somercotes notarium 

 publicum, &c. legi fecimus, tenorem sequentem in se con- 

 tinentes." The same as No. 103, but dated — " In manerio 

 nostro de Essher, Augusti 1*"°, a.d. 1485, et nostre 

 consec. anno 39." [No. 103 is repeated in a book con- 

 taining the like process in the preceding year by the same 

 commissary, in the parish church of St. Andrew the apostle, 

 at Farnham, Sept. 6th, anno 1484.] " Post quarum liter- 

 arum lecturam — dictus magister Jacobus Preston, quasdam 

 procuratorias literas mag. Richardi Mayewe presidentis, ut 

 asseruit, collegii beate Marie Magdalene, &c. sigillo rotundo 

 communi, &c. in cera rubea impresso sigillatas realiter 

 exhibuit, &c. et pro eisdem dhis suis, &c. fecit se partem, 

 ac nobis supplicavit ut juxta formam in eisdem traditam 

 procedere dignaremur, &c." After these proclamations 

 no contradictor or abjector appearing — " ad instantem 

 petitionem ipsius mag. Jac. Preston, procuratoris, &c. 

 procedendum fore decrevimus vocatis jure vocandis ; nee 

 non mag. Tho. Somercotes, &c. in actorum nostrorum 

 scribam nominavimus. Consequenter et ibidem tune 

 comparuit magister Michael ClyfF, &c. et exhibuit in ea 

 parte procuratorium suum," for the prior and convent of 

 the cathedral of Winton, "et fecit se partem pro eisdem. — 

 Deinde comperuit coram nobis, &c. honestus vir Willmus 

 Cowper," proctor for the bishop as patron of the Priory 

 of Selborne, and exhibited his " procuratorium, &e." 

 After these were read in the presence of ClyfF and 

 Cowper, "Preston, viva voce," petitioned the commissary 

 to annex and appropriate the Priory of Selborne to the 



second in rank ; for, " next under the abbot, in every abbey, was the 

 prior." Pref. to Notit. Monast. p. xxix. Besides, abbots were great 

 personages, and too high in station to submit to any office under the 

 bishop. 



