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ANTiaUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
unione Prioratus de Selborne dicto collegio. Jan. 2, 1487, et 
translat. anno P." 
N. 374. " Relaxatio prioris et conventus Sti 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 pen- 
sioned 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 fidehbus ad quos presens scriptum per- 
venerit, Richardus Mayew, presidens, &c. et scolares, salutem in 
Domino." 
" Noveritis nos prefatos presidentem et scolares dedisse, con- 
cessisse, et hoc presenti scripto confirmasse Thome Ashforde, 
capellano, quendam annualem redditum sex librarum tresdecim 
solidorum et quatuor denariorum bone et legalis monete Anglic 
— ad terminum vite prefati Thome" — to be paid from the posses- 
sions 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 seucndo," 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 of 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 him- 
self 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 coUege, and for 
all the faithful who had departed this life. 
N. 356. Thomas Knowles, presidens, &c. — "damns et con- 
cedimus Nicholao Langrish quandum capellaniam, vel salarium, 
sive alio quocunque nomine censeatur, in prioratu quondam de 
