3o8 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



live in or within five miles of the said parish ; and on failure of 

 any such, then under the direction of the vicar of Selbourn for 

 the time being; but still to the uses above-named." With this 

 sum was purchased, of Thomas Turville, of Hawkeley, in the 

 county of Southampton, yeoman, and Hannah his wife, two closes 

 of freehold land, commonly called Collier's, containing, by esti- 

 mation, eleven acres, lying in Hawkeley aforesaid. These closes 

 are let at this time, 1785, on lease, at the rate of three pounds by 

 the year. 



This vicar also gave by will two hundred pounds towards the 

 repairs of the highways* in the parish of Selborne. That sum 

 was carefully and judiciously laid out in the summer of the year 

 1730, by his son John White, who made a solid and firm causey 

 from Rood Green, all down Honey Lane, to a farm called Oak 

 Woods, where the sandy soil begins. This miry and gulfy lane 

 was chosen as worthy of repair, because it leads to the forest, and 

 thence through the Holt to the town of Farnham in Surrey, the 

 only market in those days for men who had wheat to sell in this 

 neighbourhood. This causey was so deeply bedded with stone, 

 so properly raised above the level of the soil, and so well drained, 

 that it has, in some degree, withstood fifty-four years of neglect 

 and abuse; and might, with moderate attention, be rendered a 

 solid and comfortable road. The space from Rood Green to Oak 

 Woods measures about three-quarters of a mile. 



In 1727, William Henry Cane, B.D., became vicar, and, among 

 several alterations and repairs, new-built the back front of the 

 vicarage-house. 



On February ist, 1740, Duncombe Bristowe, D.D., was insti- 

 tuted to this living. What benefactions this vicar bestowed on 

 the parish will be best explained by the following passages from 

 his will : " Item, I hereby give and beaqueath to the minister 

 and church-wardens of the parish of Selbourn, in the county of 

 Southampton, a mahogany table, which I have ordered to be 

 made for the celebration of the Holy Communion ; and also the 



* " Such legacies were very common in former times, before any effectual 

 laws were made for the repairs of highways." Sir John Cullum's Hawsted, 

 p. 15. 



