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THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
tion of it to the college, which soon after appoints attorneys to take 
possession, September 24, 1484. But the way to give the reader 
a thorough insight respecting this transaction, will be to tran- 
scribe a farther proportion of the process of the impropriation 
from the beginning, which will lay open the manner of proceed- 
ing, and show the consent of the parties. 
Impkopkiatio Selborne, 1485. 
" Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis, &c. Eicardus Dei 
gratia prior ecclesie conventualis de Novo Loco, &c.^ ad univer- 
sitatem vestre notitie deducimus, &c. quod coram nobis commis- 
sario predicto in ecclesia parocliiali Georgii de Essher, diet, 
Winton. dioc. 3^. die Augusti, A. D. 1485. Indictione tertia 
pontificat. Innocentii ann. 1"^°. judicialiter comparuit 
venerabilis vir Jacobus Preston, S. T. P. infrascri]3tus, et exhibuit 
literas commission is — quas quidem per magistrum Thorn am 
Somercotes notarium publicum, &c. legi fecimus, tenorem se- 
quentem in se continentes." 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 containing 
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 literarum lecturam — dic- 
tus magister Jacobus Preston, quasdam procuratorias literas 
mag. Eichardi Mayewe presidentis, ut asseruit, coUegii beate 
Marie Magdalene, &c. sigillo rotundo communi, &c. in cera rubea 
impresso sigillatas realiter exhibuit, &c. et pro eisdem dnis suis, 
&c. fecit se partem, ac nobis supplicavit ut juxta formam in 
^ Ecclesia Conventualis de Novo Loco was the monastery afterwards called 
the New Minster, or Abbey of Hyde, in the city of Winchester. Should 
any intelligent reader wonder to see that the prior of Hyde Abbey was com- 
missary to the Bishop of Winton, and. should conclude that there was a 
mistake in titles, and that the abbot must have been here meant, he will be 
pleased to recollect that this person was 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. 
