OF SELBOUNE, 
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LETTER XXV. 
AIISTFLEET did not long enjoy the satisfac- 
tion arising from this new acquisition ; but 
departed this life in a few months after he 
had effected the union of the Priory with his 
late founded college ; and was succeeded in 
the see of Winchester by Peter Coartney, some time to- 
wards the end of the year 1486. 
In the beginning of the following year the new bishop 
released the president and fellows of Magdalen College from 
all actions respecting the Priory of Selborne ; and the prior 
and convent of St. Swithun, as the chapter of Winchester 
cathedral, confirmed the release.^ 
293. '^Relaxatio Petri epi Winton Ricardo Mayew 
President], omnium actionum occasione indempnitatis sibi 
debite pro unione Prioratus de Selborne dicto collegio. 
Jan. 2. 1487. et translat. anno I".-" 
]Sr. 374. '^Relaxatio prions et conventus S*\ Swithini 
Winton confirmans relaxationem Petri ep. Winton.''' 1487. 
Jan. 13. 
Ashforde, 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, was pensioned by the college to the day of 
his death; and was living on till 1490^ as appears by his 
acquittances. 
REG. A. ff. 46. 
Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum 
pervenerit, Richardus Mayew, presidens, &c. et scolares, 
salutem in Domino."'' 
" Noveritis nos prefatos presidentem et scolares dedisse. 
* The Bishops of Winchester were patrons of the Priory. — G. W. 
