302 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE, 
Roger, instituted in 1254. 
In 1410 John Lynne was vicar of Selborne. 
In 1411 Hugo Tybbe was vicar. 
The presentations to the vicarage of Selborne generally ran in 
the name of the prior and the convent ; but Tybbe was presented 
by Prior John Wynechestre only. 
June 29, 1528, William Fisher, vicar of Selborne, resigned to 
Miles Peyrson. 
1594, William White appears to have been vicar to this time. Of 
this person there is nothing remarkable, but that he hath made a 
regular entry twice in the register of Selborne of the funeral of 
Thomas Cowper, bishop of Winchester, as if he had been buried 
at Selborne ; yet this learned prelate, who died 1594, was buried at 
Winchester, in the cathedral, near the episcopal throne.* 
1595, Richard Boughton, vicar. 
1596, William Inkforbye, vicar. 
May 1606, ‘Thomas Phippes, vicar. 
June 1631, Ralph Austine, vicar. 
July 1632, John Longworth. This unfortunate gentleman, living 
in the time of Cromwell’s usurpation, was deprived of his prefer- 
ment for many years, probably because he would not take the 
league and covenant; for I observe that his father-in-law, the 
Reverend Jethro Beal, rector of Faringdon, which is the next 
parish, enjoyed his benefice during the whole of that unhappy 
period. Longworth, after he was dispossessed, retired to a little 
tenement about one hundred and fifty yards from the church, where 
he earned a small pittance by the practice of physic. During those 
dismal times it was not uncommon for the deposed clergy to 
take up a medical character ; as was the case in particular, I know, 
with the Reverend Mr. Yalden, rector of Compton, near Guildford, 
in the county of Surrey. Vicar Longworth used frequently to 
mention to his sons, who told it to my relations, that, the Sunday 
after his deprivation, his puritanical successor stepped into the 
pulpit with no small petulance and exultation: and began his 
sermon from Psalm xx. 8, “They are brought down and fallen; 
but we are risen and stand upright.”. This person lived to be 
restored in 1660, and continued vicar for eighteen years ; but was 
so impoverished by his misfortunes, that he left the vicarage-house 
and premises in a very abject and dilapidated state. 
* See ‘‘ Godwin de Preeculibus,” Folio Cant. 1743, p. 239. 
