XXIV.] 
Mr. W. Gyfford, S. T. P. aged 57, of the state of Magd. Coll. 
&c. &c. as before : 
Mr. Jolm Nele, aged 57, proves the articles also : 
Eobert Baron, aged 56 : 
Johannes Chapman, aged 35, also affirmed all the five 
articles : 
Dompmis Thomas Ashforde, aged 72 years—" dicit 2^^"^ 3^"^ 
4"™ articiilos in eodem libello contentos, concernentes statum 
dicti prioratns de Seleboiirne, fuisse et esse veros." 
W. Eabbys, ?etat. 40 ann. agrees with Gyfford, &c. 
Then follows the letter from tlie bisliop, " in subsidium pro- 
bationis," above mentioned — " WilTmus, &c. salutem, &c. noverint 
nniversitas vestra, quod licet nos prioratui de Seleboiirne, &c. 
pie compacientes sollicitndines pastorales, labores, diligentias 
quampliirimas per nos & commissarios nostros pro reformatione 
status ejus impenderimus, justicia id poscente ; nihilominus 
tamen," &c. as in the article — to " desperatur," dated "in man- 
erio nostro de Essher, Aug. 3d. 1485, & consec. 39." Then, on 
the 6th of August, Preston, in the presence of the other j)roctors, 
required that they should be compelled to answer ; when they all 
allowed the articles " fuisse & esse vera ; " and tlie commissary, 
at the request of Preston, concluded the business, and appointed 
Monday, Aug. 8th, for giving his decree in the same church 
of Essher; audit was that day read, and contains a recapitula- 
tion, with the sentence of union, &c. witnessed and attested. 
As soon as the president and fellows of Magdalen College 
had obtained the decision of the commissary in their favour, 
they proceeded to supplicate the pope, and to entreat his holi- 
ness that he would give his sanction to the sentence of imion. 
Some difficulties were started at Eome ; but they were sur- 
mounted by the college agent, as ap]jears by his letters from 
that city. At length Pope Innocent VIIT. by a bull ^ bearing 
1 There is nothing remarkable in this bull of Pope Innocent except the 
statement of the annual revenue of the Priory of Selborne, which is therein 
estimated at 160 /or. auri ; whereas Bishop Godwin sets it at 337/. 15s. 0|r/. 
Now a floren, so named, says Camden, because made by Florentines, wfts a 
gold coin of King Edward III. in value 6s. whereof 160 i.^ not one-seventh 
part of 337/. I5s. 6ld. 
