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wMcli these masses were performed; and there is the more 
reason to suppose as much, because, till within these thirty 
years, this space was fenced off with Gothic wooden railings 
and was known by the name of the south chancel/ 
The solicitude expressed by the donor plainly shows her 
piety and firm persuasion of the efficacy of prayers for the 
dead ; for she seems to have made every provision for the 
payment of the sum stipulated within the appointed time ; 
and to have felt much anxiety lest her death, or the neglect 
of her executors or assigns, might frustrate her intentions. — 
Et si contingat me in solucione predicte pecunie annis 
predictis in parte aut in toto deficere, quod absit ; concedo 
et obligo pro me et assignatis meis, quod Vice- Comes . . . 
Oxon. et . . . qui pro tempore fuerint, per omnes terras et 
tenementa, et omnia bona mea mobilia et immobilia ubi- 
cunque in balliva sua fuerint inventa ad solucionem pre- 
dictam faciendam possent nos compellere/' And again — 
Et si contingat dictos religiosos labores seu expensas 
facere circa predictam pecuniam, seu circa partem dicte 
pecunie ; volo quod dictorum religiosorum impense et 
labores levantur ita quod predicto priori vel uni canoni- 
corum suorum super hiis simplici verbo credatur sine al- 
terius honere probacionis ; et quod utrique predictorum viro- 
rum in unam marcam argenti pro cujuslibet distrincione 
super me facienda tenear. — Dat. apud Wareborn die sabati 
proxima ante festum St. Marci evangeliste, anno regni regis 
Edwardi tertio decimo."'^^ 
But the reader perhaps would wish to be better informed 
respecting this benefactress, of whom as yet he has heard 
no particulars. 
The Ela Longspee therefore above-mentioned was a lady 
^ For what is said more respecting this chantry see Letter III. of 
these " Antiquities." — Mention is made of a Nicholas Langrish, capel- 
lanus de Selborne, in the time of Henry VIII. Was he chantry-chaplain 
to Ela Longspee, whose masses were probably continued to the time ot 
the Keformation ? More wUl be said of this person hereafter. — G. W. 
2 Ancient deeds are often dated on a Sunday, having been executed 
in churches and churchyards for the sake of notoriety, and for the con- 
veniency of procuring several witnesses to attest. — G. W. 
