OF SELBORNE. 
diligentias quam plurimas per nos Sc commiflarios noftros pro 
reformatione ftatus ejus impenderimus, jufticia id pofcente; 
nihilominus tamen," &c. as in the article — to " defperatur/* 
dated " in manerio noftro de EsfJoer, Aug. 3d, 1485, 8c confec. 39." 
Then, on the 6th of Augujiy Prejlon, in the pretence of the other 
prodlors, required that they (hould be compelled to anfwer; 
when they all allowed the articles " fuifle & efle vera ;" and the 
commiffary, at the requeft of Prfjlon, concluded the bufinefs, and 
appointed Monday, Augufi 8th, for giving his decree in the fame 
church of Esjl:er ; and it was that day read, and contains a recapi- 
tulation, with the fentence of union, &c. witneffed and attefted. 
As foon as the prefident and fellows of Magdalen college had ob- 
tained the decilion of the commiffary in their favour, they pro- 
ceeded to fupplicate the pope, and to entreat his holinefs that he 
would give his fandlion to the fentence of union. Some diffi- 
culties were darted at Rome-, but they were furmounted by the 
college agent, as appears by his letters from that city. At length 
pope InnocenlYlll. by a M/* bearing date the 8th day of jfime, in the 
year of our Lord i486, and in the fecond year of his pontificate, 
confirmed what had been done, and fuppreffed the convent. 
Thus fell the confiderable and well-endowed Priory of Selbome 
after it had fubfilled about two hundred and fifty-four years : about 
feventy-four years after the fuppreflion of Priories alien by 
Henry V. and about fifty years before the general difiTolution of 
monafteries by Henry VIII. The founder, it is probable, had 
» There Is nothing remarkable In this bull of po[>e Innocent except the ftatement of the 
annual revenue of tlie Priory of Selbome, which is tliereln eftimated at i6o Jior. auri ; 
whereas biihop Cod'^vin fets it at 337/. 15/. 6 :id. Now a floren, fo named, fays 
Camden, becaufe made by Floretit'wes, was a gold coin of king Edward III, in value 6x, 
whereof 160 is not one feventh part of 337/. 15/. i>\d. 
G g g fondly 
