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nity and privilege that could have been specified in the law- 

 language of the times. " Quare volumus prior, etc., habeant 

 totam terrain, etc., 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, vicecomitum, et omn : ministralium suorum ; et 

 hidagio et exercitibus, et scutagiis, et tallagiis, et shiris et hun- 

 dredis, et placitis et querelis, et warda et wardpeny, et opibus 

 castellorum et pontium, et clausuris parcorum, et omni carcio 

 et sumagio, et domor : regal : edificatione, et omnimoda repa- 

 ratione, et cum omnibus aliis libertatibus." This grant was 

 made out by Richard bishop of Chichester, then chancellor, at 

 the town of Northampton, 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. 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 citjuslibet alterius domtis religiose? 

 szibjectione libera permaneat, et in omnibus absoluta" to show 

 how much Dugdale was mistaken when he inserted Selborne 

 among the alien priories ; forgetting that this disposition of 

 the convent contradicted the grant that he had published. In 

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

 his catalogue of alien priories, suppressed 2 Henry V., viz., 

 1414, where may be seen as follows : 



S. 



Sele, Sussex, 



SELEBURN. 



Shir burn. 



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

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

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



