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also did, for the health of his own soul and that of his wife 
Constantia, their predecessors and successors, grant to the prior 
and canons quiet possession of all the tenements and gardens, 
“ curtillagia,’ which they had built and laid out on the lands in 
Selborne, on which he and his vassals, ‘‘ homznes,” had undoubted 
right of common; and moreover did grant to the convent the full 
privilege of that right of common, and empowered the religious 
VILLAGE PLEYSTOW. 
to build tenements and make gardens along the king’s highway 
in the village of Selborne. 
From circumstances put together, it appears that the above were 
the first grants obtained by the priory in the village of Selborne 
after it had subsisted about thirty-nine years; moreover, they 
explain the nature of the mixed manor still remaining in and 
