OF SELBORNE. 
Asjhforde, the depofed prior, who had appeared as an ef idencc 
for the impropriation of the Priory at the age of feventy-two years, 
that he might not be deftitute of a maintenance, was penlioned by 
the college to the day of his death ; and was living on till 1490, as 
appears by his acquittances. 
Reg, a. ff. 45, 
Omnibus Chrifti fidelibus ad quos prefens fcriptum per" 
venerit, Rkhardus Mayew, prefidens, &c. et fcolares, falutem in 
*' Domino." 
Noveritis nos prefatos prefidentem et fcolares dediffe, concef- 
" fiffejCt hoc prefenti fcripto confirmaffe Thome JsJJjforde,cc!pellano, 
quendam annualem redditum fex hbrarum trefdecim foli- 
" dorum et quatuor denariorum bone et legalis monetc 
* Anglie — ad terminum vite prefati Thome" — to be paid from the 
polTeffions of the college in Bajingftoke. — In cujus rei teftimo- 
nium figillum noftrum commune prefentibus apponimus. 
Dat. Oxon. in coll. noftro fupra didlo primo die menlis Jiinii 
anno regis i^zV^^rii tertii fecundo." viz. 1484. The college, in 
their grant to Jsjhforde, flyle him only capellanus ; but the annuitant 
very naturally, and with a becoming dignity, afferts his late title 
in his acquittances, and identifies himfelf by the addition of 
nuper prior em, or late prior. 
As, according to the perfuafion of the times, the depriving the 
founder and benefadtors of the Priory of their malTes and fervices 
would have been deemed the moft impious of frauds, bifhop 
fVainfleet, having by ftatute ordained four obits for himfelf to be 
celebrated in the chapel of Magdalen College, enjoined in one of 
them a fpecial colled for the annivcrfary of Peter dc Eupihs, with 
a particular prayer — Dm Indulgeniianm.'^ 
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