then wife, after their respective deaths.

These obits, namely anniversaries of deaths when masses were to be
offered for the person recollected, were to be secured by the fee of
a shilling to the warden on each occasion, sixpence to each fellow
and chaplain, and likewise to the schoolmaster, twopence to each lay
clerk, sixpence to the sacrist for wax candles, and a mark or
thirteen and fourpence to be spent in a "pittance" extra course in
the college hall. The indenture by which Colpoys hoped to secure
perpetual masses in remembrance of his relations and himself is in
perfect preservation, with seals attached, in the muniment chamber of
Winchester College.

The property has continued ever since in the possession of the
College of St. Mary, Winchester, though the masses ceased to be
celebrated after the Reformation.

In those days the rector of Hursley was John de Ralegh, probably a
kinsman of the bishop of that name.

Before this, however, Bishop Richard Toclive had a dispute with the
Knights of St. John, who claimed the almshouse of Noble Poverty at
St. Cross as Hospitallers. They had unfortunately a reputation for
avarice, and Toclive bought them off by giving them the impropriation
of Merton and Hursleigh {25} for 53 marks a year.

PAGANUS DE LYSKERET, styled Presbyter, was collated in 1280. It
appears that at this time there was a perpetual vicar established in
the Church of Hursley as well as a rector; and that he was instituted
by the bishop, had a certain fixed maintenance assigned to him, and