3 i2 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



to the bishop of Winchester some adjoining grounds, through 

 which our stream passes, that the priory might be accommodated 

 with a mill, which was a common necessary appendage to every 

 manor ; he also allowed access to these lands by a road for carts 

 and waggons. "Jacobus de Nortun concedit Petro Winton 

 episcopo totum cursum aque que descendit de Molendino de 

 Durton usq ; ad boscum Will. Mauduit, et croftam terre vocat : 

 Edriche croft, cum extensione ejusdem et abuttamentis ; ad fun- 

 dandam domum religiosam de ordine Sti. Augustini. Concedit 

 etiam viam ad carros, et caretas," etc. This vale, down which 

 runs the brook, is now called the Long Lithe, or Lythe. Bating 

 the following particular expression, this grant runs much in the 

 style of the former : " Dedit mihi episcopus predictus triginta 

 quinque marcas argenti ad me acquietandum versus Judaos ;" 

 that is, " The bishop advanced me thirty-five marks of silver to 

 pay my debts to the Jews," who were then the only lenders of 

 money. 



Finding himself still straitened for room, the founder applied to 

 his royal master, Henry, who was graciously pleased to bestow 

 certain lands in the manor of Selborne on the new priory of his 

 favourite minister. These grounds had been the property of 

 Stephen de Lucy; and, abutting upon the narrow limits of th 

 convent, became a very commodious and agreeable acquisition. 

 This grant, I find, was made on March Qth, in the eighteenth year 

 of Henry, viz., 1234, being two years after the foundation of the 

 monastery. The royal donor bestowed his favour with good grace, 

 by adding to it almost every immunity and privilege that could 

 have been specified in the law-language of the times. " Quare 

 volumus prior, &c., habeant totam terram &c., cum omnibus 

 libertatibus in bosco et piano, in viis et semitis, pratis et pascuis ; 

 aquis et piscariis; infra burgum, et extra burgum, cum soka et 

 saca, Thol et Them, Infangenethef et Utfangenethef, et hamsocne 

 et blodwite, et pecunia que dari solet pro murdro et forstal, et 

 flemenestrick, et cum quietancia de omni scotto et geldo, et de 

 omnibus auxiliis regum, vicecomitum, et omn : ministralium suo- 

 rum ; et hidagio et exercitibus, et scutagiis, et tallagiis, et shiris et 

 hundredis, et placitis et querelis, et warda et wardpeny, et opibus 



