ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 367 
several centuries ago there seem to have been two or three mills 
between Well Head and the priory. For the reason of this 
assertion, see Letter XXIX. to Mr. Barrington. 
Occasional mention has been made of the many privileges and 
immunities enjoyed by the convent and its priors; but a more 
particular state seems to be necessary. The author, therefore, 
thinks this the proper place, before he concludes these antiquities, 
to introduce all that has been collected by the judicious Bishop 
Tanner, respecting the priory and its advantages, in his “ Notitia 
Monastica,” a book now seldom seen, on account of the extrava- 
gance of its price, and being but in few hands cannot be easily 
consulted.* He also adds a few of its many privileges from other 
authorities :—the account is as follows. Tanner, page 166, 
SELBURNE. 
A priory of black canons, founded by the often-mentioned Peter 
de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, A.D. 1233, and dedicated to 
the Blessed Virgin Mary; but was suppressed, and granted to 
William Wainfleet, Bishop of Winchester, who made it part of the 
endowment of St. Mary Magdalene College in Oxford. The 
Bishops of Winchester were patrons of it. [Pat. 17, Edward II.] 
Vide Mon. Ang. tom. il. p. 343. “ Cartam fundationis ex ipso 
autographo in archivis Coll. Madg. Oxon. ubi etiam conservata sunt 
registra, carte, rentali et alia munimenta ad hunc prioratum 
spectantia. 
“Extracta quedam e registro MSS. in bibl. Bodl.—Dodworth, 
vol. 89, f. 140. 
“Cart. antiq. IN. IN. 2..33. P,P, 0.48. 6t 71,0. 0.0. dAowpiae: 
coram justit. itin. [Southampton] 20 Hen. rot. 25. De eccl. de 
Basing & Basingstoke. Plac. de juratis apud Winton. 40 Hen. 
III. rot.—Protecta molendini de Strete. Cart. 54. Hen. III. m. 3. 
[De mercatu, & feria apud Seleborne, a mistake.] Pat. 9. Edw. I, 
m.—Pat. 30. Edw. I. m—Pat. 33. Edw. I. p. i. m.—Pat. 35. Edw. 
Lm Rat. 2 Bowie Moy ide(O..Patie's... dw. Li» Do ion 
De terris in Achanger. Pat. 6. Edw. II. p, i.m. 7. de eisdem. 
Brev, im Scace.. 6. Kidwell. Pasch. rot... Pat,.17.: Edw. 1I..p. 4.1m: 
—Cart. ro. Edw. Hl no24.. Quod terre suze in Selebumn, 
Achangre, Norton, Basings, Basingstoke, and Nately, sint de 
_ * A few days after this was written a new edition of this valuable work was announced 
in the month of April of the year 1787, as published by Mr. Nasmith. 
