“ Item ckmat qd fi aliquis hominum fuorum de terris et
“ ten. p. delifto fuo vitam aut membrum debeat amittere vel
“ fugiat, & judico ftare noluerit vel aliud deli&um fecit pro
“ quo debeat catella fua amittere, ubicunq; juftitia fieri debeat
“ omnia catella ilia fint ptci Prioris et fucceffor. fuor. Et liceai
S eidem priori et ballis fuis ponere fe m feifinam in hujufmodi
“ catal'l. incafibus pdcis fine difturbacone ballivor. dni reg.
“ quorumcunque. ; 1 '
“ Item clam, quod' licet aliqua libtatum p dnm regem con-
,£ cellar, pceffu temporis quocunq ; cafu coutingenre nfi non
<c fuerint, nlominus poftea eadm libtate uti poflit. Et pdcus prior
c{ quelitus p juftic.. quo waranto clamat omn. terr. et ten. fua in
“ Seleburne, Norton, Bajynges, Bajyngejloke, & Naitele, que prior
“ domus pdte^uit & tenuit XmQ. die April anno regni dni Hen.
“ reg, pavi dni reg. nue XVIII. imppm efle quieta de valto et
“ regardo, et vifu foreftarior. et viridarior. regardator. et omniuni
« miniftrorum forefte.” &c., &c.—‘Chapter-houfe, Weftmin[ter<.
L E T T E R .
LETTER XXVL.
T ho ugh tKe evidences and documents of tfie Priory and parilh of
Selborne are now at an end, yet, as the author has ftill feveral things
to fay refpefting the prefent Hate of that convent and it’s Grange,
and other matters, he does not fee how He can acquit himfelfof the
fubjeft without trefpaffing again on the patience of the reader by
adding one fupplemerrtary létter..
No foonerdid the Priory (perhaps much out of repair at the
time) become an appendage-to the college, but it muft at once
have tended to fwift decay; Magdalen College wanted now only two
chambers for the chantry prielt and his affiftant ; and therefore
had no occafibn for the halli dormitory, and other fpacious apartments
belonging to fo- large a foundation.. The roofs negleded,
would foon becomethe- polTeffion of daws and owls; and, being
rotted and decayed by the weather, would fall in upon the floors;
fo that all parts muft have haftened to.fpeedy dilapidation and a
fcene of broken ruins. Three full centuries have now palled fince
the diflblution ; a feries of years that would craze the ftouteft
edifices. But, befides the flow hand of time; many circumftances
have contributed to level this venerable ftrufture with the ground)
of which nothing now remains but one piece of a wall of about ten
feet long, and as many feet high, which probably was part of an
out-houfe. As early as the latter end of the reign of Hen. VII.