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Rh Dict. Winton. dioc. 3°. die Augusti, A.D. 1485. Indictione tertia pontificat. Innocenti 8. ann. imo. judicialiter comparuit venerabilis vir Jacobus Preston, S. T. P. infrascriptus, et exhibuit literas comissionis—quas quidem per magistrum Thomam Somercrotes notarium publicum, &c., legi fecimus, tenorem sequentem in se continentes.” The same as in No. 103, but dated—"In manerio nostro de Esher, Augusti i . A.D. 1485, et nostre confec. anno. 39.” [No 103 is repeated in a book containing the like process in the preceding year by the same commissary, in the parish church of St. Andrew the Apostle, at Farnham, Sept. 6th, anno 1434.] “Post quarum literarum lecturam—dictus magister Jacobus Preston, quasdam procuratorias literas mag. Richardi Mayhewe presidentis, ut asseruit, collegii beate Marie Magdalene, &c., sigillo rotundo communi, &c., in cera rubea impresso sigillatas realiter exhibuit, &c., et pro eisdem dnis suis &c., fecit se partem, ac nobis supplicavit ut juxta formam in eisdem traditam procedere dignaremur,” &c. After these proclamations no contradictor or objector appearing—"ad instantem petitionem ipsius mag. Jac. Preston, procuratoris, &c., procedendum fore decrevimus vocatis jure vocandis; nee non mag. Tho. Somercotes, &c., in actorum nostrorum scribam nominavimus. Consequenter et ibidem tune comparuit magister Michael Clyff, &c., et exhibuit in ea parte procuratorium suum,” for the prior and convent of the cathedral of Winton, "et fecit se partem pro eisdem. Deinde comperuit coram nobis, &c., honestus vir Willmus Cowper,” proctor for the bishop as patron of the Priory of Selborne, and exhibited his "procuratorium,” &c. After these were read in the presence of Clyff and Cowper, "Preston, viva voce,” petitioned the commissary to annex and appropriate the Priory of Selborne to the college—“propter quod fructus, redditus, et proventus ejusdem coll. adeo tenues sunt, et exiles, quod ad sustentationem ejus, &c., non sufficiunt.” The commissary, “ad libellandum et articulandum in scriptis,”—adjourned the court to the 5th August, then to be held again in the parish church of Esher.

W. Cowper being then absent, Radulphus Langley appeared for the bishop, and was admitted his proctor. Preston produced his libel or article in scriptis for the union, &c.; "et admitti petiit