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fuerint, nlominus postea eadm libtate uti possit. Et pdcus 

 prior quesitus p justic. quo waranto clamat omn. terr. et ten. 

 sua in Seleburne, Norton, Basynges, Basyngestoke, & Nattele. 

 que prior domus pdte huit & tenuit X mo . die April anno regni 

 dni Hen. reg. nue XVIII. imppm effe quieta de vasto et re- 

 gardo, et visu forestarior. et viridarior. regardator. et omnium 

 ministrorum foreste." etc., etc. Chapter-house, Westminster. 



NOTES 



I The bishops of Winchester were patrons of the Priory. G. W. 



z It may not be amiss to mention here that various names of tithings, 

 farms, fields, woods, etc., which appear in the ancient deeds, and evidences 

 of several centuries standing, are still preserved in common use with little 

 or no variation : as Norton, Southington, Durton, Achangre, Blackmore, 

 Bradshot, Rood, Plestor, etc., etc. At the same time it should be acknowl- 

 edged that other places have entirely lost their original titles, as le Buri and 

 Trucstede in this village ; and la Liege, or la Lyge, which was the name of 

 the original site of the Priory, etc. G. W. 



3 Men at first heaped sods, or fern, or heath, on their roofs to keep off 

 the inclemencies of weather ; and then by degrees laid straw or haum. The 

 first refinements on roofing were shingles, which are very ancient. Tiles 

 are a late and imperfect covering, and were not much in use till the beginning 

 of the sixteenth century. The first tiled house at Nottingham was in 1503. 

 G. W. 



4 There is also a Butt-close just at the back of the village. G. W. 



6 N. 381. " Clausure terre abbatie ecclesie parochiali de Seleburne, ix.r. 

 \\i\d. Reparacionibus domorum predicti prioratus iiii. lib. xlr. Aque conduct, 

 ibidem. xxinW." G. W. 



6 There is still a wood near the Priory, called Tanner's Wood. G. W. 



7 This is a manor-farm, at present the property of Lord Stawell ; and 

 belonged probably in ancient times to Jo. de Venur, or Venuz, one of the 

 first benefactors to the Priory. G. W. 



8 See Letter XIX. of these Antiquities. "Summa total, solut. de novis 

 edificationibus, et raparacionibus per idem tempus, ut patet per comput." 



"Videlicet de nova edificat. Capelle Marie de Wadden. xiiii. lib. vs. 

 viii. d. Reparacionibus ecclesie Prioratus, canceller, et capellar. ecclesia- 

 rum et capellarum de Selborne, et Estworhlam," etc., etc. G. W. 



9 Sargentia, a sort of tenure of doing something for the king. G. W. 



10 " Servitium, quo feudatorii grana sua ad Domini molendinum, ibi 

 molenda perferre, ex consuetudine, astringuntur." G. W. 



II Thomas Knowles, president, etc., ann. Hen. 8vi. xxiii . [1532] demised 

 to J. Whitelie their mills, etc., for twenty years. Rent xxiiLr. iu\d. Ac- 

 cepted Frewen, president, etc., ann. Caroli xv. [viz., 1640] demised to Jo. 

 Hook and Elizabeth his wife, the said mills. Rent as above. G. W. 



12 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 published by 

 Mr. Nasmith. G. W. 



