338 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
Pas be Ee Re Vad 
INFORMATION being sent to Rome respecting the havoc and 
spoil that was carrying on among the revenues and lands of the 
priory of Selborne, as we may suppose by the Bishop of Win- 
chester, its visitor, Pope Martin,* as soon as the news of these 
proceedings came before him, issued forth a bull, in which he 
enjoins his commissary immediately to revoke all the property 
that had been alienated. , 
In this instrument his holiness accuses the prior and canons of 
having granted away (they themselves and their predecessors) to 
certain clerks and laymen their tithes, lands, rents, tenements, and 
possessions, to some of them for their lives, to others for an undue 
term of years, and to some again for a perpetuity, to the great and 
heavy detriment of the monastery ; and these leases were granted, 
he continues to add, under their own hands, with the sanction of 
an oath and the renunciation of all right and claims, and under 
penalties, if the right was not made good.—But it will be best to 
give an abstract from the bull. 
N. 298. Pope Martin’s bull touching the revoking of certaine 
things alienated from the priory of Seleburne. Pontif. sui ann. i. 
“ Martinus Eps. servus servorum Dei. Dilecto filio Priori de 
Suthvalet Wyntonien, dioc. Salutem & apostolicam ben. Ad 
audientiam nostram pervenit quam tam dilecti filii prior et con- 
ventus monasterii de Seleburn per Priorem soliti gubernari ordinis 
St Augustini Winton, dioc. quam de predecessores eorum decimas, 
terras, redditus, domos, possessiones, vineas,t et quedam alia bona 
* Pope Martin V. chosen about 1417._ He attempted to reform the church, but died in 
1431, just as he had summoned the Council of Basil. 
+ Should have been no doubt Southwick, a priory under Portsdown. 
t Mr. Barrington is of opinion that anciently the English vinea was in almost every 
instance an orchard; not perhaps always of apples merely, but of other fruits; as 
hemes plums, and currants. We still say a plum or cherry-orchard.—See Archeologia, 
vol. iii. 
In the instance above, the Pore’s secretary might insert vineas merely because they 
were a species of cultivation familiar to him in Italy. 
