OF SELBORNE, 
Impropriatio Selborne, 14^^. 
" Univerfis fanfle matris ecclefie filiis, &c. Ricardus Dei 
*' gratia prior ecclefie conventualis de Novo Loco, &c ad uni- 
verfitatem veftre notitie deducimus, &c. quod coram nobis 
" commiffario prediilo in ecclefia parochiali S''. Georgil de EsfJjer, 
*' did. IVinton. dioc. 3°. die Av.gvjii, A. D. 1485. Indiftione tertia 
*' poncificat. Innocentii 8^'. ann. judicialiter comparuit venera- 
bills vir Jacobus Prcjlon, S. T. P, infrafcriptus, et exhibuit 
literas coaimiflionis — quas quidem per magirtruni Thomam 
" Soinercotcs norarium publicum, &:c. legi fecimus, tenorem fe- 
*' quentem in fe continentes." The fame as N°. 103, but dated 
— " In manerio noftro de Esjlxr, Aug!']}}, 1"^°. A. D. 1485, et 
" noftre confec. anno 39." [N". 103 is repeated in a book 
containing the like procefs in the preceding year by the fame 
comraiffary, in the parifli church of St. Andrezv the apoftle, at 
Farnham, Sept. 6th, anno 1.1^^4.] Pofc quarum Jitcrarum lecflu- 
ram — dictus magifter yacohi'.s PreJIon^ quaidam procuratorias 
*' literas mag. Richardi Mayewe prefldentis, ut afleruit, collegil heate 
*' Mark Magdalene, &c. figillo rotundo communi, &c. in cera 
" rubea impreffo figillatas realiter exhibuit, &c. et pro ellclem 
" chils fuis, &c. fecit fe partem, ac nobis fupplicavit ut juxta 
^ Ecdcfia Conventualis de Novo Loco was the monaftery afterwards called the Nevj 
Minfter, or Abbey oi Hjcle, in the city oi Winchefler. Should any intelligent reader won- 
der to fee that the prior of HjJe Abbey was com:iiiffar> to the bifhop of IVinton, and ihould 
conclude that there was a miftake in titles, a.nd that the abbot muft have been here 
meant ; he will be pleafed to recoliecl: that this perfon was the fecond in rank y for, 
next uader the abbot, in every abbey, was the prior." Pref. to5 Notit. Monaft,, 
p. xxix.- Befides, abbots were great perJonages, and too high in Ibtion to fubmit to 
any office under the bifliop. 
" formam 
