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PRIORY FARM HOUSis 
LET TBR xX Reva 
THOUGH the evidences and documents of the priory and parish 
of Selborne are now at an end, yet as the author has still several 
things to say respecting the present state of that convent and its 
Grange, and other matters, he does not see how he can acquit 
himself of the subject without trespassing again on the patience of 
the reader by adding one supplementary letter. 
No sooner did the priory (perhaps much out of repair at the time) 
become an appendage to the college, but it must at once have 
tended to swift decay. Magdalen College wanted now only two 
chambers for the chantry priest and his assistant ; and therefore: 
had no occasion for the hall, dormitory, and other spacious apart- 
ments belonging to so large a foundation. The roofs neglected, 
would soon become the possession of daws and owls ; and, being 
rotted and decayed by the weather, would fall in upon the floors, so 
that all parts must have hastened to speedy dilapidation and a scene 
of broken ruins. Three full centuries have now passed since the 
