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inuse. They might also be placed as a shelter to the congregation 
assembling before the church doors were opened, and as an emblem 
of mortality by their funereal appearance. In the south of England 
every churchyard almost has its tree, and some two; but in the 
north, we understand, few are to be found. 
The idea of R. C. that the yew-tree afforded its branches instead 
of palms for the processions on Palm Sunday, is a good one, and 
deserves attention. See “ Gent. Mag.” vol. 1. p. 128. 
DE i Eker sve: 
THE living of Selborne was a very small vicarage; but being in 
the patronage of Magdalen College, in the university of Oxford, 
that society endowed it with the great tithes of Selborne, more than 
a century ago; and since the year 1758 again with the great tithes 
of Oakhanger, called Bene’s parsonage; so that, together, it is 
become a respectable piece of preferment, to which one of the 
fellows is always presented. The vicar holds the great tithes, by 
lease, under the college. The great disadvantage of this living is, 
that it has not one foot of glebe near home.* 
ITS PAYMENTS ARE— Se Sse 
King’s books SR: esr: 
Yearly tenths o 16 25 
Yearly procurations for Blackmore and Oakhanger Chap. | ee 
with acquit 5 3 5 ies 7 
Selborne procurations and acquit Oo (9c 
I am unable to give a complete list of the vicars of this parish 
till towards the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; from which 
period the registers furnish a regular series. 
In Domesday we find thus—“ De isto manerio dono dedit Rex 
Radfredo presbytero dimidiam hidam cum ecclesia.” So that before 
Domesday, which was compiled between the years 1081 and 1086, 
here was an Officiating minister at this place. 
After this, among my documents, I find occasional mention of a 
vicar here and there ; the first is— 
* At Bene’s, or Bin’s, parsonage there is a house and stout barn, and seven acres of 
glebe ; Bene’s parsonage is three miles from the church. 
