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eisdem traditain procedere dignaremur, &c." After tliese procla- 
mations no contradictor or abjector appearing — " ad instanteni 
petitioneni ipsius mag. Jac. Preston, procnratoris, &c. proceden- 
dam fore decrevimus vocatis jure vocandis ; nec non mag. Tho. 
Somercotes, &c. in actorum nostrornni scribam nominavimus. 
Consequenter et ibidem tunc comparuit magister ]\licliael Clytf, 
&c. et exhibnit in ea parte procnratorium snum," for the prior 
and convent of tlie cathedral of AVinton, " et fecit se partem pro 
eisdem. — Deinde coniperuit coram noljis, &c. lionestus vir 
Willmus Cowper," proctor for the bishop as patron of the Priory 
of Selborne, and exhibited his " procnratorium/' &c. After these 
were read in the presence of Cly ff and Cowper, ' Preston, viva 
voce," petitioned the commissary to annex and appropriate the 
Priory of Selborne to the college — " pro}yter quod fructus, red- 
ditus, et proventus ejusdem coll. adeo tennes sunt, et exiles, quod 
ad sustentationem ejus, &c. non snfficiunt." — The commissary, 
"ad libellandum et articnlandum in scriptis " — adjonrned tlie 
court to the 5th of Angust, then to be held again in the parish 
church of Essher. 
AV. Cowper being then absent, Eadulphus Langley appeared 
for tlie bishop, and was admitted his proctor. Preston produced 
his libel or article in scrijitis for the nnion, &c. "etadmitti petiit 
eundem cum effectu ; cnjns libelli tenor sequitur. — In Dei 
nomine. Amen. Coram nobis venerabili in Christo patre Eich- 
ardo, priore, &c. de Novo Loco, &c. comniissario, &c." Part of 
the college of Magd. dicit. allegat. and in his "scriptis proponit," 
&c. 
"Imprimis" — that said college consists of a president and 
eighty scholars, besides sixteen choristers, thirteen " servientes 
inibi altissimo faniulantibns, et in scientiis plerisque liberalibus, 
presertim in sacra theologia studentibus, nedum ad ipsorum pre- 
sidentis et scholarium pro presenti et imposterum, annuente deo, 
incorporandorum in eodem relevamen ; verum etiam ad omnium 
et singulorum tam scholarium quam religiosorum cujuscunque 
ordinis undequaque illuc confluerepro salubri doctrina volentium 
utilitatem multiplicem ad incrementa virtutis fideique catholice 
stabilimentum. Ita videlicet quod omnes et singuli absque 
personarum sou nationum delectu illuc accedere volentes, lecturas 
