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ago there seem to have been two or three mills between 

 Well-head and the Priory. For the reason of this assertion, 

 see Letter XXIX. to Mr. Harrington. 



Occasional mention has been made of the many privileges 

 and immunities enjoyed by the convent and it's priors ; but a 

 more particular state seems to be necessary. The author 

 therefore thinks this the proper place, before he concludes 

 these antiquities, to introduce all that has been collected by 

 the judicious bishop Tanner, respecting the Priory and it's 

 advantages, in his Notitia Monastica, a book now seldom seen, 

 on account of the extravagance of it's price; and being but in 

 few hands cannot be easily consulted. 01 He also adds a few 

 of it's many privileges from other authorities : the account 

 is as follows. Tanner, page 166. 



SELEBURNE. 



A priory of black canons, founded by the often-mentioned 

 Peter de Riipibus, bishop of Winchester, A.D. 1233, and dedi- 

 cated to the blessed Virgin Mary : but was suppressed and 

 granted to William Wainfteet, bishop of Winchester, who 

 made it part of the endowment of St. Mary Magdalene College 

 in Oxford. The bishops of Winchester were patrons of it. 

 [Pat. 17. Edw. II.] Vide in Mon. Angl. torn. II. p. 343. 

 " Cartam fundationis ex ipso autographo in archivis Coll. 

 t( Magd. Oxdn. ubi etiam conservata sunt registra, cartes, 

 " rentalia et alia munimenta ad hunc prioratum spectantia. 



" Extracta qusedam e registro MSS. in Bibl. Bodl. Dods- 

 " worth, vol. 89. f. 140." 



" Cart, antiq. N. N. n. 33. P. P. n. 48. et 71. Q. Q. n. 40. 

 " plac. coram justit. itin. [Southampton] 20 Hen. rot. 25. De 

 " eccl. de Basing, & Basing stoke. Plac. de juratis apud Winton. 

 " 40 Hen. III. rot. Prosecta molendini de Strete. Cart. 54. 

 " Hen. III. m. 3. \_De mercatu, Sf feria apud Seleborne, a mis- 



m A few days after this was written a new edition of this valuable 

 work was announced, in the month of April of the year 1787, as pub- 

 lished by Mr. Nasmith. 



