ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 307 
the conveyance says, “ Warantizabimus, defendemus, et zequiecta- 
bimus, contra omnes gentes:’ viz., ‘We will warrant the thing 
sold against all claims from any quarter.” In modern convey- 
ancing this would be termed a covenant for further assurance. 
Afterwards is added — “Pro hac autem donacione, &c., dedit 
mihi pred. Episcopus sexdecem marcas argenti in Gersumam,;”? 
z. é., “the bishop gave me sixteen silver marks as a consideration 
for the thing purchased.” 
as the grant from Jac. de Achangre was without date,* and the 
next is circumstanced in the same manner, we cannot say exactly 
what interval there was between the two purchases; but we find 
that Jacobus de Nortun, a neighbouring gentleman, also soon sold 
to the bishop of Winchester some adjoining grounds, through 
which our stream passes, that the priory might be accommodated 
with a mill, which was a common necessary appendage to every 
manor ; he also allowed access to these lands by a road for carts 
and waggons.— Jacobus de Nortun concedit Petro Winton epis- 
copo totum cursum aque que descendit de Molendino de Durton 
usq ; ad boscum Will. Mauduit, et croftam terre vocat : Edriche 
croft, cum extensione ejusdem et abuttamentis; ad fundadam 
domum religiosam de ordine Sti. Augustini; Concedit etiam 
viam ad carros, et caretas,” &c. This vale, down which runs 
the brook, is now called the Long Lithe, or Lythe. Bating the 
following particular expression, this grant runs much in the style 
of the former: “ Dedit mihi episcopus predictus triginta quinque 
marcas argenti ad me acguietandum versus Jud@os ;” that is, ‘* the 
bishop advanced me thirty-five marks of silver to pay my debts to 
the Jews,” who were then the only lenders of money. 
Finding himself still straitened for room, the founder applied to 
his royal master, Henry, who was graciously pleased to bestow certain 
lands in the manor of Selborne on the new priory of his favourite 
minister. These grounds had been the property of Stephen de Lucy 5 
and, abutting upen the narrow limits of the convent, became a very 
commodious and agreeable acquisition. This grant, I find, was 
made on March the oth, in the eighteenth year of Henry, viz., 1234, 
being two years after the foundation of the monastery. The royal 
donor bestowed his favour with a good grace, by adding to it almost 
every immunity and privilege that could have been specified in the 
law-language of the times.—‘ Quare volumus prior, &c., habeant 
* The custom of affixing dates to deeds was not become general in the reign of 
Henry III. 
