ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE 2$/ 



April 1680, Barnabas Long became vicar. 



June 1681. This living was now in such low estimation in 

 Magdalen College that it descended to a junior fellow, Gilbert 

 White, M.A., who was instituted to it in the thirty-first year 

 of his age. At his first coming he ceiled the chancel, and also 

 floored and wainscoted the parlor and hall, which before were 

 paved with stone, and had naked walls ; he enlarged the kitchen 

 and brewhouse, and dug a cellar and well ; he also built a large 

 new barn in the lower yard, removed the hovels in the front 

 court, which he laid out in walks and borders ; and entirely 

 planned the back garden, before a rude field with a stone-pit 

 in the midst of it. By his will he gave and bequeathed " the 

 sum of forty pounds to be laid out in the most necessary 

 repairs of the church ; that is, in strengthening and securing 

 such parts as seem decaying and dangerous." With this sum 

 two large buttresses were erected to support the east end of 

 the south wall of the church, and the gable-end wall of the 

 west end of the south aisle was new built from the ground. 



By his will also he gave " one hundred pounds to be laid 

 out on lands ; the yearly rents whereof shall be employed in 

 teaching the poor children of Selbourn parish to read and 

 write, and say their prayers and catechism, and to sew and 

 knit ; and be under the direction of his executrix as long as 

 she lives ; and, after , her, under the direction of such of his 

 children and their issue, as shall live in or within five miles of 

 the said parish ; and on failure of any such, then under the 

 direction of the vicar of Selbourn for the time being ; but still 

 to the uses above-named." With this sum was purchased, of 

 Thomas Turville, of Hawkeley, in the county of Southampton, 

 yeoman, and Hannah his wife, two closes of freehold land, 

 commonly called Collier's, containing, by estimation, eleven 

 acres, lying in Hawkeley aforesaid. These closes are let at 

 this time, 1785, on lease, at the rate of three pounds by the 

 year. 



This vicar also gave by will two hundred pounds towards 

 the repairs of the highways 3 in the parish of Selborne. That 

 sum was carefully and judiciously laid out in the summer of 

 the year 1730, by his son John White, who made a solid and 

 firm causeway from Rood Green, all down Honey Lane, to a 

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