OF SELBORNE. 295 



In 1410 John Lynne was vicar of Selborne. 

 In 1411 Hugo Tybbe was vicar. 



The presentations to the vicarage of Selborne generally ran 

 in the name of the prior and the convent; but Tybbe was 

 presented by prior John Wynechestre only. 



June 29, 1528, William Fisher, vicar of Selborne, resigned 

 to Miles Peyrson. 



1594, William White appears to have been vicar to this 

 time. Of this person there is nothing remarkable, but that he 

 hath made a regular entry twice in the register of Selborne of 

 the funeral of Thomas Cowper, bishop of Winchester, as if he 

 had been buried at Selborne; yet this learned prelate, who 

 died 1594, was buried at Winchester, in the cathedral, near 

 the episcopal throne.* 



1595, Richard Boughton, vicar. 



1596, William Inkforbye, vicar. 

 May 1606, Thomas Phippes, vicar. 

 June 1631, Ralph Austine, vicar. 



July 1632, John Longworth. This unfortunate gentleman, 

 living in the time of Cromwell's usurpation, was deprived of 

 his preferment for many years, probably because he would not 

 take the league and covenant : for I observe that his father- 

 in-law, the Reverend Jethro Beal, rector of Faringdon, which 

 is the next parish, enjoyed his benefice during the whole of 

 that unhappy period. Longworth, after he was dispossessed, 

 retired to a little tenement about one hundred and fifty yards 

 from the church, where he earned a small pittance by the 

 practice of physic. During those dismal times it was not 

 uncommon for the deposed clergy to take up a medical 

 character; as was the case in particular, I know, with the 

 Reverend Mr. Yalden, rector of Compton, near Guildford, in 

 the county of Surrey. Vicar Longworth used frequently to 

 mention to his sons, who told it to my relations, that, the 

 Sunday after his deprivation, his puritanical successor stepped 

 into the pulpit with no small petulance and exultation ; and 

 began his sermon from Psalm xx. 8. " They are brought 

 " down and fallen; but ice are risen and stand upright" This 

 1 See Godwin de praosulibus, folio. Cant, 1743, page 239. 



