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ANTIQUITIES OF SELBOENE. 
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 presentibus 
apponimus. Dat. Oxon. in coll. nostro supra dicto 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 
acquittances, and identifies himself by the addition oiiliQ nuper priorem, 
or late prior. 
As, according to the persuasion of the times, the depriving 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 particular prayer — Deus 
Indulgentiarum" 
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. 
N. 356. Thomas Knowles, presidens, &c. — damns et concedimus 
!N'icholao Langrish quandum capellaniam, vel salarium, sive alio quo- 
cunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu quondam de Selborne pro 
termino 40 annorum, si tam diu vixerit. Ubi dictus mag. Nicholaus 
celebrabit pro animabus omnium benefactorum dicti prioratus et coll. 
nostri, et omnium fidelium defunctorum. Insuper nos, &c. concedimus 
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 coquina, et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro tribus 
equis, cum pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard — Preterea 
26s. 8d. per ann. ad inveniendum unum clericum ad serviendum sibi 
ad altare, et aliis negotiis necessariis ejus." — His wood to be granted 
him by the president on the progress. — 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. 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 Magd. 
Coll. in the fourth year of Edward YL, 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 super- 
annuated 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 YHL, viz., 1526 : and it appears that 
