OF SELBORNE. 
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L E T T E Pn. XIL 
Th e ladies and daughter of Su- Adam Gurdon were not the only, 
benefaftreffes to the Priory of Selborne-, for, in the year 1281, Ela 
Long/pee obtained maffes to be performed for her foul's health ; 
and the prior entered into an engagement that one of the convent 
fliould every day fay a fpecial mafs for ever for the faid bene- 
faulrefs, whether living or dead. She alfo engaged within five 
years to pay to the faid convent one hundred marks of filver for 
the fupport of a chantry and chantry-chaplain y who flioiikl perform 
his maffes daily in the pariihi church of Selborne ■■. In the eaft end 
of the fouth aile there are two lharp-pointed gothic niches ; one of 
thefe probably was the place under which thefe maffes were per- 
formed; and there is the more rcafon to fuppofe as much, becaufe, 
till within, thefe thirty years, this fpace was fenced off v/ith gothic 
wooden railing, and was known by the name of the fouth chancel ^ 
The folicitude expreffed by the donor plainly fhews her piety 
and firm perfuafion of the efficacy of prayers for the dead ; for 
' A. cJmntry ^■i.^ a chapel joined to fome cathedral or parifh church, and endowed 
with annual revenues for the maintenance of one or more prleftj to fing mafs daily for 
the foul of the founder, and others. 
s Forwhat is faid more refpefting this chantry fee Letter III. of thefe Antiquities. — - 
Mention is made of a Nicholas Langrijh, capellanus de Stlborite, in the time of Henry VIII, 
Was he chantry-chaplain to Ela Long/pee, whofe mafles were probably conUn\isd to the 
time of the reformation ? More will be faid of this perfon hereafter, 
fhe 
