ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 389 
of the Priory of Selborne. The extract is taken from an attested 
copy. 
*' Item — that the said bishop— dicto prioratui et personis ejas- 
dem pie compatiens, soUicitudines pastorales, labores, et diligen- 
tias gravissimas quam plurimas, tarn per se quam per suos, pro 
reformatione premissorum impendebat: et aUquando illius loci 
prioribus, propter malam et inutilem administrationem, et dis- 
pensationem bonorum predict! prioratus, suis demeritis exigen- 
tibus, amotis ; alios priores in quorum circumspectione et 
diligentia confidebat, prefecit : quos tamen male se habuisse ac 
inutihter administrare, et administrasse, usque ad presentia \ 
tempora post debitam investigationem, &c. invenit.'^ So that he ! 
despaired with all his care — " statum ejusdem reparare vel j 
restaurare : et considerata temporis malicia, et preteritis timendo i 
et conjecturando futura, de aliqiia bona et sancta religione ejus- | 
dem ordinis, &c. juxta piam intentionem primevi fundatoris ! 
ibidem habend. desperatur." 
Wilham 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 
