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" tibus, amotis ; alios pr'iores in quorum circumfpedlone etr 
diligentia confidebat, prefecit : quos tamen male fe habuiffe ac 
inutiliter adminiftrare, et adminiftraffc, ufque ad prefentia tem- 
" pora poft debitam inveftigationem, &c. invenit." So that he 
defpaired with all his care — " ftatum cjufdem reparare vel reftau- 
" rare : et conliderata temporis malicia, et preteritis timendo et 
conieft.urando futura, de aliqua bona et fandla religione ejufdem 
*' ordinis, &c. juxta piam intentionem primevi fundatoris ibidem 
" habend. defperatur." 
IFilliam PFalnfleet, bilhop of tPlncheJler, founded his college of 
Saint Mary Magdalene^ in the univerfity of Oxford, in or about the 
year 1459 ; but the revenues proving infufficient for fo large and 
noble an eftabliihm.ent, the college fupplicated the founder to 
augment it's income by putting it in poffeffion of the eftates be- 
longing to the Priory of Selhorne, now become a deferred convent, 
without canons or prior. The prefident and fellows ftate the cir- 
cumftances of their numerous inftitution and fcanty provifion, and 
the ruinous and perverted condition of the Priory. The bifhop 
appoints commiflaries to inquire into the ftate of the faid monaf- 
tery ; and, if found expedient, to confirm the appropriation of 
it to the college^ which foon after appoints attornies to take pof- 
feffion, September 2^, 1484. But the way to give the reader a 
thorough infigbt refpefting this tranfaftion, will be to tranfcribe 
a farther proportion of the procefs of the impropriation from the 
beginning, which will lay open the manner of proceeding, and 
fhew the confent of the parties. 
Impropri ATIO 
