544 
THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
cedimus Nicliolao Langrish qiiandum capellaniam, vel salarium, 
sive alio quocunqne nomine censeatnr, in prioratu quondam de 
Selborne pro termino 40 annornm, si tarn din vixerit. Ubi dic- 
tis mag^ Nicliolaus celebrabit pro animabus omnium benefac- 
toruni dicti prioratns et coll. nostri, et omnium fidelium defunc- 
torum. Insuper nos, &c. concedimus eidem ibidem celebranti 
in sustentationem suam quandam annualem pensionem sive 
annuitatem octo librarum, &c. — in dicta capella dicti prioratus 
— concedimus duas cameras contiguas ex parte boreali dicte 
capelle, cum una co([m)ia, et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro 
tribus equis, cum pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard — 
Preterea 26s. 8c?. per ann. ad inveniendum unum clericum ad 
serviendum sibi ad altare, et aliis negotiis necessariis ejus." — His 
wood to be granted him by the president on the progress. — He 
was not to absent himself beyond a certain time ; and was to 
superintend the coppices, wood, and hedges. — " Dat. 5^°. die 
Julii. an«. Hen. NllV\ 36^" [viz. 1546.] 
Here we see the l^riory in a new light, reduced as it were to 
the state of a chantry, without prior and without canons, and 
attended only by a priest, who was also a sort of bailiff' or wood- 
man, his assistant clerk, and his female cook. Owen Oglethorpe, 
president, and Magd. Coll. in the fourth year of Edward VI. viz. 
1551, granted an annuity of ten pounds a year for life to Nich. 
Langrish, who, from the preamble, appears then to have been 
fellow of that society : but, being now superannuated for busi- 
ness, this pension is granted him for thirty years, if he should 
live so long. It is said of him — " cum jam sit provectioris etatis 
quam ut," &c. 
Laurence Stubb, president of Magd. Coll, leased out the 
Priory lands to John Sharp, husbandman, for the term of twenty 
years, as early as the seventeenth year of Henry VIII. — viz. 
1526 : and it appears that Henry Newlyn had been in posses- 
sion of a lease before, probably towards the end of the reign 
of Henry VII. Sharp's rent was vi'\ per annum. — Eegist. B. 
p. 43. 
By an abstract from a lease lying before me, it appears that 
Sharp found a house, two barns, a stable, and a duf-house [dove- 
house], built, and standing on tlie south side of the old Priory, 
