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castellcrum et pontium, et clausuris parcorum, et omni carcio et 

 sumagio, et domor : regal : edification e, et ommmoda reparatione, 

 et cum omnibus aliis libertatibus." This grant was made out by 

 Richard bishop of Chichester, then chancellor, at the town of 

 Northampton, before the lord chief justiciary, who was the founder 

 himself. 



The charter of foundation of the Priory, dated 1233, comes 

 next in order to be considered ; but being of some length, I shall 

 not interrupt my narrative by placing it here. This my copy, 

 taken from the original, I have compared with Dugdale's copy, 

 and find that they perfectly agree ; except that in the latter the 

 preamble and the names of the witnesses are omitted. Yet I 

 think it proper to quote a passage from this charter : " Et ipsa 

 domus religiosa a ciijuslibet alterius domus religiose subjectione libera 

 perrnaneat, et in omnibus absoluta" to show how much Dugdale 

 was mistaken when he inserted Selborne among the alien priories ; 

 forgetting that this disposition of the convent contradicted the 

 grant that he had published. In the " Monasticon Anglicanum," 

 in English, p. 119, is part of his catalogue of alien priories, sup- 

 pressed 2 Henry V., viz., 1414, where may be seen as follows : 



S. 

 Sele, Sussex, 



SELEBURN. 



Shirburn, 



This appeared to me from the first to have been an oversight, 

 before I had seen my authentic evidences. For priories alien> a 

 few conventual ones excepted, were little better than granges to 

 foreign abbeys, and their priors little more than bailiffs removable 

 at will; whereas the priory of Selborne possessed the valuable 

 estates and manors of Selborne, Achangre, Norton, Brompden, 

 Bassinges, Basingstoke, and Natele ; and the prior challenged the 

 right of pillory, thurcet, and furcas, and every manorial privilege. 



I find next a grant from Jo. de Venur, or Venuz, to the prior 

 of Selborne, " de tota mora [a moor or bog] ubi Berne oritur, 

 usque ad campum vivarii, et de prato voc. Sydenmeade cum 

 abutt : et de cursu aque molendini." And also a grant in rever- 

 sion " unius virgate terre " (a yard land), in Achangre at the deat> 



