304. ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
of Thomas Turville, of Hawkeley, in the county of Southampton, 
yeoman, and Hannah his wife, two closes of freehold land, 
commonly called Collier’s, containing, by estimation, eleven acres 
lying in Hawkeley aforesaid. These closes are let at this time, 
1785, on lease, at the rate of three pounds by the year. 
This vicar also gave by will two hundred pounds towards the 
repairs of the highways* in the parish of Selborne. That sum 
was carefully and judiciously laid out in the summer of the year, 
1730, by his son John White, who made a solid and firm causey 
from Rood Green, all down Honey Lane, to a farm called Oak 
Woods, where the sandy soil begins. This miry and gulfy lane 
was chosen as worthy of repair, because it leads to the forest, and 
thence through the Holt to the town of Farnham in Surrey, the only 
market in those days for men who had wheat to sell in this neigh- 
bourhood. This causey was so deeply bedded with stone, so 
properly raised above the level of the soil, and so well drained, 
that it has, in some degree, withstood fifty-four years of neglect 
and abuse; and might, with moderate attention, be rendered a 
solid and comfortable road. The space from Rood Green to Oak 
Woods measures about three-quarters of a mile. 
In 1727, William Henry Cane, B.D., became vicar, and, among 
several alterations and repairs, new built the back-front of the 
vicarage-house. 
On February Ist, 1740, Duncombe Bristowe, D.D., was in- 
stituted to this living. What benefactions this vicar bestowed 
en the parish will be best explained by the following passages 
from his will :—“ Item, I hereby give and bequeath to the minister 
and churchwardens of the parish of Selbourn, in the county of 
Southampton, a mahogany table, which I have ordered to be made 
for the celebration of the Holy Communion ; and also the sum of 
thirty pounds, in trust, to be applied in manner following; that is, 
ten pounds towards the charge of erecting a gallery at the west end 
of the church; and ten pounds to be laid out for clothing, and 
such like necessaries, among the poor (and especially among 
the ancient and infirm) of the said parish: and the remaining ten 
pounds to be distributed in bread, at twenty shillings a week, at the 
discretion of John White, Esq., or any of his family, who shall be 
resident in the said parish.” 
On November 12th, 1758, Andrew Etty, B.D., became vicar. 
* “Such legacies were very common in former times, before any effectual laws were 
made for the repairs of highways.’’—Sir ¥ohn Cullum’s Hawsted, p. 15. 
