ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 305 



LETTER VI. 



THE living of Selborne was a very small vicarage ; but, being in 

 the patronage of Magdalen College, in the university of Oxford, 

 that society endowed it with the great tithes of Selborne, more 

 than a century ago ; and since the year 1758 again with the great 

 tithes of Oakhanger, called Bene's parsonage ; so that, together, 

 it is become a respectable piece of preferment, to which one of 

 the fellows is always presented. The vicar holds the great tithes, 

 by lease, under the college. The great disadvantage of this living 

 is, that it has not one foot of glebe near home.* 



ITS PAYMENTS ARE s. d. 



King's books . 821 



Yearly tenths 0162^ 



Yearly procurations for Blackmore and Oakhanger 



Chap, with acquit .017 



Selborne procurations and acquit 090 



I am unable to give a complete list of the vicars of this parish 

 till towards the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; from which 

 period the registers furnish a regular series. 



In Domesday we find thus " De isto manerio dono dedit Rex 

 Radfredo presbytero dimidiam hidam cum ecclesia." So that 

 before Domesday, which was compiled between the years 1081 

 and 1086, here was an officiating minister at this place. 



After this, among my documents, I find occasional mention of 

 a vicar here and there ; the first is 



Roger, instituted in 1254. 



In 1410 John Lynne was vicar of Selborne. 



In 1411 Hugo Tybbe was vicar. 



The presentations to the vicarage of Selborne generally ran in 

 the name of the prior and the convent j but Tybbe was presented 

 by Prior John Wynechestre only. 



* At Bene's, or Bin's, parsonage there is a house and stout barn, and seven 

 acres of glebe ; Bene's parsonage is three miles from the church. 



