49(3 
ANTIQUITIES 
sequitur. — In Dei nomine, Amen. Coram noLis vcuerjibili 
in Christo patre Eichardo, priore, &c. de Novo Loco, &c. 
commissario, &c." On the part of the college of Magd. 
dicit, allegat, and in his scrip tis proponit, &c." 
Imprimis — that said college consists of a president and 
eighty scholars, besides sixteen choristers,thirteen servientes 
inibi altissimo famulantibus, et in scientiis plerisque libera- 
libus, presertim in sacra theologia studentibus, nedum ad 
ipsorum presidentis et scholarium pro presenti et imposte- 
rum, annuente deo, incorporandorum in eodem relevamen ; 
verum etiam ad omnium et singulorum tarn scholarium quam 
religiosorum cujuscunque ordinis undequaque illuc confluere 
pro salubri doctrina volentium utilitatem multiplicem, ad 
incrementa virtutis fideique catholice stabilimentum. Ita 
videlicet quOd omnes et singuli absque personarum sen 
nationum delectu illuc accedere volentes, lecturas publicas 
et doctrinas tam in grammatica, loco ad collegium contiguo, 
ac philosophiis morali et naturali, quam in sacra theologia 
in eodem coUegio perpetuis temporibus continuandas libere 
atque gratis audire valeant et possint, ad laudem gloriam et 
honorem Dei, &c. extitit fundatum et stabilitum." 
For the first item in this process see the beginning of 
this letter. Then follows item the second — that the 
revenues of the college non sufficiunt his diebus/' '^Item 
— that the premisses are true, &c. ut super eisdem labora- 
runt, et laborant publica vox et fama. Unde facta fide 
petit pars eorundem that the Priory be annexed to the 
college : ita quod dicto prioratu vacante liceat iis ex tunc 
to take possession, &c/^ This libel, with the express con- 
sent of the other proctors, we, the commissary, admitted, 
and appointed the 6th of August for Preston to prove the 
premisses. 
Preston produced witnesses, W. Gy fiord, S. T. P., John 
Nele, A. M., John Chapman, chaplain, and Robert Baron, 
literatus, who were admitted and sworn, when the court was 
prorogued to the 6th of August ; and the witnesses, on the 
same 6th of August, were examined by the commissary, 
''in capella infra manerium de Essher situata, secrete et 
singillatim/' Then follow the " literae procuratoriae:" first 
