The suppression of the alien priories, which had been preceded by demands on the part of a small but fanatical minority for confiscations of a more comprehensive character, did not in the event point the way towards a more general dissolution. Such an end would not have appeared desirable, even if practically attainable, to Henry V or his son. It did, however, set a precedent of another kind by making lands and endowments available for royal and other colleges. Henceforward, prelates or kings who contemplated founding academic colleges or collegiate churches looked about for decayed monasteries within their jurisdiction whose revenues and lands might be transferred to what appeared to be more useful purposes, and it is not surprising, in view of the multitude of religious houses and the vicissitudes of the times, that they seldom looked in vain. The second half of the fifteenth century did not lack munificent bishops interested in foundations at Oxford and Cambridge: thus Waynflete of Winchester acquired for Magdalen College the decayed or derelict priory of Selborne in Hampshire and the whilom alien house of Sele in Sussex; at the end of the century Alcock of Ely suppressed the vanishing nunnery of St Radegund's at Cambridge, and converted it into Jesus College, while Smith of Lincoln transferred Cold Norton to his college of Brasenose at Oxford. At almost the same time Henry VII obtained bulls suppressing Mottisfont for the benefit of Windsor, and by uniting the priory of Luffield, a royal foundation, with Westminster rendered most of its revenues available for the same purpose.