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we cannot say exactly what interval there was between the 

 two purchases; but we find that Jacobus de Nortun, a 

 neighbouring gentleman, also soon sold 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 fundandam 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 follow- 

 ing particular expression, this grant runs much in the style 

 of the former ; " Dedit mihi episcopus predictus triginta 

 quinque marcas argenti ad me acquietandum versus Ju- 

 daeos." — 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 the convent, became a 

 very commodious and agreeable acquisition. This grant, 

 I find, was made on March the 9th, in the eighteenth year 

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

 of the monastery. The royal donor bestowed his favour 

 with a 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 Hbertatibus 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 



