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necessary appendage to every manor : lie also allowed access 

 to these lands by a road for carts and waggons. " Jacobus de 

 Nortun concedit Petro Winton episcopo totum cursum aque 

 a 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," &c. 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 Judceos." 

 That is, " the bishop advanced me thirty-five marks of silver 

 " to pay my debts to the jews," who were then the only lend- 

 ers of money. 



Finding himself still straightened 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 be- 

 stowed 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 terrain, &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, vice comitum, et omn : minis- 

 " tralium suorum ; et hidagio et exercitibus, et scutagiis, et 

 " tallagiis, et shiris et hundredis, et placitis et querelis, et 

 " warda et wardpeny, et opibus castellorum et pontium, et 

 " clausuris parcorum, et omni carcio et sumagio, et domor : 



