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A N T I Q^U I T I E S 
The college alfo fent Nicholas Langrijh, who had been a chantry 
priefl at Selhrne, to celebrate mafs for the fouls of all that had been 
benefadors to the faid Priory and college, and for all the faithful 
who had departed this life. 
N. 356. Thomas Knozvles, prefidens, &c. — " damus et con- 
** cedunus Nicholao Langrijh quandum capellaniam, vel falarium, 
" five alio quocunque nomine cenfeatur, in prioratu quondam de 
Selberne pro termino 40 annorum, fi tarn diu vixerit. Ubi 
*' didus mag"". Nicholaus celebrabit pro animabus omnium bene- 
fadtorum didli prioratus et coll. noftri, et omnium fidelium 
defundorum. Infuper nos, &c. concedimus eidem ibidem 
celebrant! in fullentationem fuam quandam annualem penfi- 
onem five annuitatem odo librarum &c. — in dida capella 
didi prioratus — concedimus duas cameras contiguas ex parte 
" boreali dide capelle, cum una coquina, et cum uno ftabulo 
" conveniente protribus equis,cum pomerio eldem adjacente voc. 
" \tOrcheyard — Preterea 26s. 8d. perann. ad inveniendum unum 
" clericum ad ferviendum fibi ad altare, et aliis negotiis neceflTariis 
" ejus." — His wood to be granted him by the prefident on the 
progrefs. — He was not to abfent himfelf beyond a certain time ; 
and was to fuperintend the coppices, wood, and hedges.' 
" Dat. 5*°. die J«/ii. an°. Hen,Vl\V\ 36°." [viz. 1546.] 
Here we fee the Priory in a new light, reduced as it were to 
the ftate of a chantry, without prior and without canons, and at- 
tended only by a prieft, who was alfo a fort of bailiff or woodman, 
his aflTiftant clerk, and his female cook. Owen Oglethorpe, prefi- 
dent, i^ndi Magd. Coll. in the fourth year of £^fe^?ri VI. viz. 1551, 
granted an annuity of ten pounds a year for life to Nich. Langrijh, 
who, from the preamble, appears then to have been fellow of that 
fociety ; but, being now fuperannuated for bufinefs, this penfion is 
granted 
