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THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
within these thirty years, this place was fenced off wdth 
Gothic wooden railing, and was known by the name of the 
south chancel.^ 
The solicitude expressed by the donor plainly shows her piety 
and firm persuasion of the efficacy of prayers for the dead ; for 
she seems to have made every provision for the payment of the 
sum stipulated within the appointed time; and to have felt 
much anxiety lest her death, or the neglect of her executors or 
assigns, might frustrate her intentions. — " Et si concingat me in 
solucione predicte pecunie annis predictis in parte aut in toto 
deficere, quod absit ; concedo et oblige pro me et assignatis meis, 
quod Vice-Comes . . . Oxon et qui pro tempore fuerint, per 
omnes terras et tenementa, et omnia bona mea mobilia et immo- 
bilia ubicunque in balliva sua fuerint inventa ad solucionem 
predictam faciendam possent nos compellere." And again — "Et 
si contingat dictos religiosos labores seu expensas facere circa 
predictam pecuniam, seu circa partem dicte pecunie ; volo quod 
dictorum religiosorum impense et labores levantur ita quod pre- 
dicto priori vel uni canonicorum suoram superhiis simplici 
verbo credatur sine alterius honere probacionis ; et quod utrique 
predictorum virorum in unam marcam argenti pro cujuslibet 
distrincione super me facienda tenear. — Dat. apud.Wareborn 
die sahati proxima ante festum St. Marci evangeliste, anno 
regni regis Edwardi tertio decimo." ^ 
But the reader perhaps would wish to be better inform et 
respecting this benefactress, of whom as yet he has heard nc 
particulars. 
The Ela Longspee therefore above mentioned was a lady ol 
high birth and rank, and became countess to Thomas de New- 
burgh, the sixth Earl of Warwick : she was the second daughter 
^ For what is said more respecting this chantry see Letter III. of these 
Antiquities. — Mention is made of a Nicholas Langrish, capellanus de Selborne, 
in the time of Henry VIII. Was he chantry-chaplain to Ela Longspee, whose 
masses were probably continued to the time of the Eeformation ? More will 
foe said of this person hereafter. 
2 Ancient deeds are often dated on a Sunday, having been executed in 
churches and churchyards for the sake of notoriety, and for the conveniency 
of procuring several witnesses to attest. 
