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ANTIQUITIES 
concessisse, et lioc presenti scripto confirmasse Thome Asli- 
forde, capellano, quendam annualem redditum sex librarum 
tresdecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum bone et legalis 
monete Anglie — ad terminum vite prefati Thome " — to be 
paid from the possessions of the college in Basingstoke. — 
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum commune pre- 
sentibus apponimus. Dat. Oxon. in coll. nostro supraaicto 
primo die mensis Junii anno regis Ricardi tertii secundo,'' 
viz. 1484. The college, in their grant to Ashforde, style 
him only capellanus ; but the annuitant very naturally, and 
with a becoming dignity, asserts his late title in his acquit- 
tances, and identifies himself by the addition nuper priorem, 
or late prior. 
As, according to the persuasion of the times, the de- 
priving the founder and benefactors of the Priory of their 
masses and services would have been deemed the most 
impious of frauds. Bishop Wainfleet, having by statute 
ordained four obits for himself to be celebrated in the chapel 
of Magdalen College, enjoined in one of them a special 
collect for the anniversary of Peter de Rupibus, with a par- 
ticular prayer — Deus IndulgenUarum.'' 
The college also sent Nicholas Langrish, who had been 
a chantry priest at Selborne, to celebrate mass for the 
souls of all that had been benefactors to the said Priory 
and college, and for all the faithful who had departed 
this life. 
JS". 356. Thomas Knowles, presidens, &c. — damus et 
coacedimus Nicholao Langrish quandam capellaniam, vel 
saiarium, sive alio quocunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu 
quondam de Selborne pro termino 40 annorum, si tam diu 
vixerit. Ubi dictus mag*". Nicholaus celebrabit pro anima- 
bus omnium benefactorum dicti prioratus et coll. nostri, et 
omnium fidelium defunctorum, &c. Insuper nos, &c. con- 
cedimus 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 
ccfquina, et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro tribus equis, 
cum pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard — Preterea 
