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stead of palms for the processions on Palm- Sunday r , is a good 

 one, and deserves attention. See Gent. Mag. Yol. L. p. 128. 



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 par- 

 sonage: 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. 8 



ITS PAYMENTS ARE, 8. d. 



King's books 821 



Yearly tenths 16 2J 



Yearly procurations for Blackmore and OakJtanger 1 ^ .. - 



Chap ; with acquit : ) 



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. 



8 At Bone's, or Urn's, parsonage there is a house and stout barn, and 

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



