VI.] OF SELBORNE. 173 



LETTER VI. 



THE living of Selbome was a very small vicarage; but, being in 

 the patronage of Magdalen College, in the University of Oxford, 

 that society endowed it with the great tithes of Sel borne, more 

 than a century ago: and since the year 1758 again with the 

 great tithes of Oakhanger, called Bene's Parsonage : so that, 

 together, it is become a respectable piece of preferment, to 

 which one of the fellows is always presented. The vicar holds 

 the great tithes, by lease, under the college. The great dis- 

 advantage of this living is, that it has not one foot of glebe 

 near home. 1 



ITS PAYMENTS ARE, 



s. d. 



King's books 821 



Yearly tenths 16 2 



Yearly procurations for Blackmore and Oakhanger 



Chap : with acquit : 017 



Selborne procurations and acquit : 090 



I am unable to give a complete list of the vicars of this 

 parish till towards the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; 

 from which period the registers furnish a regular series. 



In Domesday we find thus " De isto manerio dono dedit 

 Rex Eadfredo presbytero dimidiam hidam cum ecclesia." So 

 that before Domesday, which was compiled between the years 

 1081 and 1086, there was an officiating minister at this place. 



After this, among my documents, I find occasional mention 

 of a vicar here and there: the first is 

 Roger, instituted in 1254. 

 In 1410 John Lynne was vicar of Selborne. 

 In 1411 Hugo Tybbe was vicar. 



The presentations to the vicarage of Selborne generally ran 

 in the name of the prior and the convent ; but Tybbe was pre- 

 sented by prior John Wynechestre only. 



1 At Bene's, or Bin's, parsonage there is a house and stout barn, and seven 

 acres of glebe. Bene's parsonage is three miles from the church. 



