XXV.] OF SELBORNE. 543 
Asliforde, the deposed prior, who had appeared as an evidence 
for the impropriation of the Priory at the age of seventy-two 
years, that he might not be destitute of a maintenance, Avas pen- 
sioned by the college to the day of his death ; and was living 
on till 1490, as appears by his acquittances. 
Eeg. a. ff. 4G. 
" Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum perven- 
erit, Eichardus Mayew, presidens, &c. et scolares, saJutem in 
Domino. 
"Noveritis nos prefatos presidentem et scolares dedisse, con- 
cessisse, et hoc presenti scripto confirmasse Thome Asliforde, 
capellano, quendam annualem redditum sex librarum tresdecim 
solidorum et quatuor denariorum bone et legalis monete Anglie 
— ad terminum vite prefati Thome " — to be paid from tlie i>os- 
sessions of the college in Basingstoke. — In cujus rei testimo- 
nium sigillum nostrum commune presentibus apponimus. Dat. 
Oxon. in coll. nostro supra dicto primo die mensis Junii ainio 
regis Kicardi tertii secundo, viz. 1484. The college, in their 
grant to Ashforde, style him only capellanus ; but the annuitant 
very naturally, and with a becoming dignity, asserts his late 
title in his acquittances, and identifies himself by the addition 
of miper priorem, or late prior. 
As, according to the persuasion of the times, the depriving 
the founder and benefactors of the Priory of their masses and 
services would have been deemed the most impious of frauds, 
Bishop Wainfleet, having by statute ordained four obits for him- 
self to be celebrated in the chapel of Magdalen College, en- 
joined in one of them a special collect for the anniversary of 
Peter de Paipibus, with a particular prayer — " Ben,"^ Indulgcntia- 
rumr 
The college also sent Nicholas Langrish, wdio had been a 
chantry priest at Selborne, to celebrate mass for the souls of all 
that had been benefactors to the said Priory and college, and for 
all the faithful who had departed this life. 
N". 856. Thomas Knowles, presidens, &c. — " damns et con- 
