OF SELBORNE. '303 



" regal : edificatione, et omnimoda reparatione, et cum omni- 

 " bus aliis libertatibus." This grant was made out by Richard 

 bishop of Chichefter, then chancellor, at the town of North- 

 ampton, 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 ; and therefore 

 refer the reader to the Appendix, N I. 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 cujuslibet alterius domus religiose 

 " subjectione libera permaneat, et in omnibus absoluta " to 

 shew how much Dug dale was mistaken when he inserted Sel- 

 borne among the alien priories ; forgetting that this disposi- 

 tion of the convent contradicted the grant he had published. 

 In the Monasticon Anglicanum in English, p. 119, is part of 

 his catalogue of alien priories, suppressed 2 Henry Y. viz. 1414, 

 where may be seen as follows, 



s. 



Sele, Sussex. 



SELEBURN. 

 Shirburn. 



This appeared to me from the first to have been an over- 

 sight, before I had seen my authentic evidences. For priories 

 alien, a few conventual ones excepted, were little better than 

 granges to foreign abbies ; and their priors little more than 

 bailiffs, removable at will : whereas the priory of Selborne 

 possessed the valuable estates and manors of Selborne, Achan- 

 gre, Norton, Brompden, Bassinges, Basingstoke, and Natele ; 

 and the prior challenged the right of Pillory, Thurcet, and 

 Furcas, and every manerial 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. Syden- 



