OF SEL^OBNE. 
501 
2t)5. 8d. per ann. ad invenienclum unum clericum ad servi- 
endum sibi ad altare, et aliis negotiis necessariis ejus/^ — 
His wood to be granted him by the president on the pro- 
gress. — He was not to absent himself beyond a certain time; 
and was to superintend the coppices, wood, and hedges. — 
"Dat. 5'°. die Julii. an*'. Hen. VIIF^ 36°.'^ [viz. 1546.] 
Here we see the Priory in a new light, reduced as it 
were to the state of a chantry, without prior and without 
canons, and attended only by a priest, who was also a sort 
of bailiff or woodman, his assistant clerk, and his female 
cook.^ Owen Oglethorpe, president, and Magdalen College, 
in the fourth year of Edward VI., viz. 1551, granted an 
annuity of ten pounds a year for life to Nich. Langrish, 
who, from the preamble, appears then to have been fellow 
of that society : but, being now superannuated for business, 
this pension is granted him for thirty years, if he should live 
so long. It is said of him — cum jam sit provectioris etatis 
quam ut,^' &c. 
Laurence Stubb, president of Magd. Coll. leased out the 
Priory lands to John Sharp, husbandman, for the term of 
twenty years, as early as the seventeenth year of Henry 
YIII. — viz. 1256 : and it appears that Henry ]S"ewlyn had 
been in possession of a lease before, probably towards the 
end of the reign of Henry VII. Sharp's rent was vi^'. per 
ann. — Regist. B. p. 43. 
'By an abstract from a lease lying before me, it appears 
that Sharp found a house, two barns, a stable, and a duf- 
house [dove-house], built, and standing on the south side 
of the old Priory, and late in the occupation of Newlyn. 
In this abstract also are to be seen the names of all the 
fields, many of which continue the same to this day.'^ Of 
^ This is a clerical error. The text (see last page) is " cum una 
coquina et cum uno stabulo," with a kitchen and stable. — Ed. 
It may not be amiss to mention here that various names of tithings, 
farms, fields, woods, &c., which appear in the ancient deeds and evi- 
dences of several centuries' standing, are still preserved in common use 
with little or no variation : — as Norton, Southington, Durton, Achangre, 
Blackmore, Bradshot, "^ood, Plestor, &c., &c. At the same time it 
should be acknowledged that other places have entirely lost their original 
