OF SELBOBNE, 
453 
of higli birtli and rank, and became countess to Tbomas de 
Newburgh, tlie sixth Earl of Warwick : she was the second 
daughter of the famous Ela Longspee, Countess of Salis- 
bury, by William Longspee, natural son of King Henry II. 
by Rosamond. 
Our lady, following the steps of her illustrious mother,' 
was a great benefactress to the university of Oxford, to 
the canons of Oseney, the nuns of Godstow, and other 
religious houses in Oxfordshire. She died very aged in 
the year 1300,^ and was buried before the high altar in the 
abbey church of Oseney, at the head of the tomb of Henry 
D'Oily, under a flat marble, on which was inlaid her portrai- 
ture, in the habit of a vowess, engraved on a copper- plate. 
— Edmonson's History and Genealogical Account of the 
Grevilles/' p. 23. 
LETTER XIIL 
HE reader is here presented with five forms 
respecting the choosing of a prior, but as 
they are of some length they must be reserved 
for the Appendix;^ their titles are No. 108, 
Charta petens licentiam eligendi prelatum 
a Domino episcopo Wintoniensi : — " Forma licentie con- 
^ Ela Lonsgpee, Countess of Salisbury, in 1232, founded a monastery 
at Lacock, in the county of Wilts, and also another at Hendon, in the 
county of Somerset, in her widowhood, to the honour of the Blessed 
Virgin and St. Bernard. (Camden.) — G. W. 
^ Thus she survived the foundation of her chantry at Selborne fifteen 
years. About this lady and her mother consult Dugdale's " Baronage," 
i. 72, 175, 177.— Dugdale's " Warwickshire," i. 383.— Leland's " Itin." 
ii. 45.— G. W. 
^ (Appendix, No. 108.) 
Carta petens licentiam eligendi prelatum a Domino Episcopo Wintoniensi, 
Defuncto prelato forma petendi licentiam eligendi. 
" Domino et patri in Christo reverendo domino & P. Dei gratia Win- 
toniensi episcopo, devoti sui filii supprior monasterii de S. Wintoniensia 
