390 
ANTIQUITIES -OF SELBORNE. 
sitatem vestre notitie deducimus, &c. quod coram nobis commis- 
sario predicto in ecclesia parochiali S^'. Georgii de Essher, diet. 
Winton. dioc. 3«. die Augusti, A. D. 1485. Indictione tertia 
pontificat. Innocentii 8'*. ann. I*"*, judicialiter comparuit vene- 
rabilis vir Jacobus Preston, S. T. P. infrascriptus, et exbibuit 
literas commissionis — quas quidem per magistrum Thomam 
Somercotes notarium publicum, &c. legi fecimus, tenorem se- 
quentem in se continentes.'' The same as N°. 103, but dated 
— ** In manerio nostro de Essher, Augusti, Imo. A. D. 1485, et 
nostre consec. anno 39." [N° 103 is repeated in a book contain- 
ing the like process in the preceding year by the same commis- 
sary, in the parish church of St. Andrew the apostle, at Farnham, 
Sept. 6th, anno 1484.] "Post quarum literarum lecturam — 
dictus magister Jacobus Preston, quasdam procuratorias literas- 
mag. Richardi May ewe presidentis, ut asseruit, collegii beate 
Marie Magdalene, &c. sigillo rotundo communi, &c. in cera 
rubea impresso sigillatas realiter exhibuit, &c. et pro eisdem dnis 
suis, &c. fecit se partem, ac nobis supplicavit ut juxta formam in 
eisdem traditam procedere dignaremur, &c." After these pro- 
clamations no contradictor or objector appearing — " ad instantem 
petitionem ipsius mag. Jac. Preston, procuratoris, &c. proceden- 
dum fore decrevimus vocatis jure vocandis ; nec non mag. Tho. 
Somercotes, &c. in actorum nostrorum scribam nominavimus. 
Consequenter et ibidem tunc comparuit magister Michael ClyfF, 
&c. et exhibuit in ea parte procuratorium suum,'* for the prior 
and convent of the cathedral of Winton, ** et fecit se partem pro 
eisdem. — Deinde comperuit coram nobis, &c. honestus vir 
Willmus Cowper," proctor for the bishop as patron of the Priory 
of Selborne, and exhibited his " procuratorium, &c." After these 
were read in the presence of ClyfF and Cowper, " Preston, viva 
voce," petitioned the commissary to annex and appropriate the 
Priory of Selborne to the college — ** propter quod fructus, reddi- 
tus, et proventus ejusdem coll. adeo tenues sunt, et exiles, quod 
ad sustentationem ejus, &c. non sufficiunt." — The commissary, 
" ad libellandum et articulandum in scriptis" — adjourned the 
court to the 5th of August, then to be held again in the parish 
church of Esher. 
there was a mistake in titles, and that the abbot must have been here meant; he will be pleased 
to recollect that this person was the second in rank ; for, next under the abbot, in everv abbey, 
*as th'i prior." Pref. to Notit. Monast. p. xxix. Bes"iiies, abbots were g;reat personages, and 
too high in station to sttbmit to an}' office under the bishop. 
