OF SELBORNE. 337 



the Priory of Selborne, as we may suppose by the bishop of 

 Winchester, it's visitor, Pope Martin,* as soon as the news of 

 these proceedings came before him, issued forth a bull, in 

 which he enjoins his commissary immediately to revoke all the 

 property that had been alienated. 



In this instrument his holiness accuses the prior and canons 

 of having granted away (they themselves and their predeces- 

 sors) to certain clerks and laymen their tithes, lands, rents, 

 tenements, and possessions, to some of them for their lives, 

 to others for an undue term of years, and to some again for a 

 perpetuity, to the great and heavy detriment of the monastery: 

 and these leases were granted, he continues to add, under 

 their own hands, with the sanction of an oath and the renun- 

 ciation of all right and claims, and under penalties, if the right 

 was not made good. But it will be best to give an abstract 

 from the bull. 



N. 298. Pope Martin's bull touching the revoking of cer- 

 taine things alienated from the Priory of Seleburne. Pontif. 

 sui. ann. 1. 



" Martinus Eps. servus servorum Dei. Dilecto filio Priori 

 " de Suthvale* Wyntonien. dioc. Salutem & apostolicam ben. 

 " Ad audientiam nostram pervenit quam tarn dilecti filii prior 

 " et conventus monasterii de Seleburn per Priorem soliti 

 " gubernari ordinis S u . Augustini Winton. dioc. quam de' pre- 

 " decessores eorum decimas, terras, redditus, domos, posses- 

 " siones, vineas* et quedam alia bona ad monasterium ipsum 

 "spectantia, datis super hoc litteris, interpositis juramentis, 



P Pope Martin V. chosen about 1417. He attempted to reform the 

 church, but died in 1431, just as he had summoned the council of Basil. 



* Should have been no doubt Southivick, a priory under Portsdown. 



r Mr. Harrington is of opinion that anciently the English vinea was in 

 almost every instance an orchard; not perhaps always of apples merely, 

 but of other fruits ; as cherries, plums, and currants. We still say a plum 

 or cherry-orchard*. See vol. III. of Archaologia. 



In the instance above the pope's secretary might insert vineas merely 

 because they were a species of cultivation familiar to him in Italy. 



* [The word Orchard had no reference originally to any particular 

 kind of produce. It is derived from A.-S. Ort, a contraction of Weorty 

 worts or plants, and Geard, yard, wort-yard or garden. T. B.] 



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