308 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
totam terram, &c., cum omnibus libertatibus in bosco et plano, in 
viis et semitis, pratis et pascuis; aquis et piscariis ; infra burgum, 
et extra burgum, cum soka et saca, Thol et Them, Infangenethef et 
Utfangenethef, et hamsocne et blodwite, et pecunia que dari solet 
pro murdro et forstal, et flemenestrick, et cum quietancia de omni 
scotto et geldo, et de omnibus auxiliis regum, vicecomitum, et omn: 
ministralium suorum ; et hidagio et exercitibus, et scutagiis, et tal- 
lagiis, et shiris et hundredis, et placitis et querelis, et warda, et ward- 
peny, et opibus castellorum et pontium, et clausuris parcorum, et 
omni carcio et sumagio, et domor: regal: edificatione, et omnimoda 
reparatione, et cum omnibus aliis libertatibus.” This grant was 
made out by Richard bishop of Chichester, then chancellor, at the 
town of Northampton, before the lord chief justiciary, who was the 
founder himself. 
The charter of foundation of the priory, dated 1233, comes next 
in order to be considered ; but being of some length, I shall not 
interrupt my narrative by placing it here. This my copy, taken 
from the original, I have compared with Dugdale’s copy, and find 
that they perfectly agree ; except that in the latter the preamble 
and the names of the witnesses are omitted. Yet I think it 
proper to quote a passage from this charter: “Et ipsa domus. 
religiosa a cujuslibet alterius domus religiose subjectione libera per- 
maneat, et in omnibus adso/ufa,” to show how much Dugdale was. 
mistaken when he inserted Selborne among the alex friories ; for- 
getting that this disposition of the convent contradicted the grant 
that he had published. In the “ Monasticon Anglicanum,”’ in 
English, p. 119,is part of his catalogue of alzen friories, suppressed 
2 Henry V., viz., 1414, where may be seen as follows :— 
SS. 4s 
Sele, Sussex, 
SELEBURN. 
Shirburi. 
This appeared to me from the first to have been an oversight, 
before I had seen my authentic evidences. For priories alien a 
few conventual ones excepted, were little better than granges to 
foreign abbeys, and their priors httle more than bailiffs removeable 
at will ; whereas the priory of Selborne possessed the valuable estates 
and manors of Selborne, Achangre, Norton, Brompden, Bassinges, 
Basingstoke, and Natele, and the prior challenged the right of 
pillory, thurcet, and furcas, and every manorial privilege. 
I find next a grant from Jo. de Venur, or Venuz, to the prior of 
