ANTIQUITIES OP SELBORNE. 
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of the Priory of Selborne. The extract is taken from an attested 
copy. 
"Item — that the said bishop— dicto prioratui et personis ejus- 
dem pie compatiens, soUicitudines pastorales, labores, et diligen- 
tias gravissimas quam plurimas, tam per se quam per suos, pro 
reformatione premissorum impendebat: et aliquando illius loci 
prioribus, propter malam et inutilem administrationem, et dis- 
pensationem bonorum predicti prioratus, suis demeritis exigen- 
tibus, amotis; alios priores in quorum circumspectione et 
dihgentia confidebat, prefecit : quos tamen male se habuisse ac 
inutiliter administrare, et administrasse, usque ad presentia 
tempora post debitam investigationem, &c. invenit/^ So that he 
despaired with all his care — " statum ejusdem reparare vel 
restaurare : et considerata temporis malicia, et preteritis timendo 
et conjecturando futura, de aliqua bona et sancta religione ejus- 
dem ordinis, &c. juxta piam intentionem primevi fundatoris 
ibidem habend. desperatur.'^ 
William Wainfleet, bishop of Winchester, founded his college 
of Saint Mary Magdalene, in the university of Oxford, in or 
about the year 1459; but the revenues proving insufficient for 
so large and noble an establishment, the college supplicated the 
founder to augment its income by putting it in possession of the 
estates belonging to the Priory of Selborne, now become a de- 
serted convent, without canons or prior. The president and 
fellows state the circumstances of their numerous institution and 
scanty provision, and the ruinous and perverted condition of the 
Priory. The bishop appoints commissaries to enquire into the 
state of the said monastery ; and, if found expedient, to confirm 
the appropriation of it to the college, which soon after appoints 
attorneys to take possession, September 24, 1484. But the way 
to give the reader a thorough insight respecting this transaction, 
will be to transcribe a further proportion of the process of the 
impropriation from the beginning, which will lay open the 
manner of proceeding, and show the consent of the parties. 
Impropriatio Selborne, 1485. 
" Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis, &c. Ricardus Dei 
gratia prior ecclesie conventualis de Novo Loco, &c.* ad univer- 
* Ecclesia Conventualis de Novo Loco was the monastery afterwards called the New Minster, 
or Abbey of Hyde, in the city of Winchester. Should any intelligent reader wonder to see that 
the prior of Hyde Abbey was commissary to the bishop of Winton, and should conclude that 
