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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 1 in the parisli 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 causey from Rood Green all down Honey Lane, to a farm 

 called Oak Woods, where the sandy soil begins. This miry 

 and gulfy lane was chosen as worthy of repair, because it leads 

 to the forest, and thence through the Holt to the town of 

 Farnham in Surrey, the only market in those days for men who 

 had wheat to sell in this neighbourhood. This causey was so 

 deeply bedded with stone, so properly raised above the level of 

 the soil, and so well drained, that it has, in some degree, with- 

 stood fifty-four years of neglect and abuse; and might, with 

 moderate attention, be rendered a solid and comfortable road. 

 The space from Rood Green to Oak Woods measures about 

 three quarters of a mile. 



In 1727 William Henry Cane, E.D., became vicar; and, 

 among several alterations and repairs, new built the back front 

 of the vicarage house. 



On February 1, 1740, Duncombe Bristowe, D.D., was instituted 

 to this living. What benefactions this vicar bestowed on the 

 parish will be best explained by the following passages from 

 his will : " Item, I hereby give and bequeath to the minister 

 and churchwardens of the parish of Selbourn, in the county of 

 Southampton, a mahogany table, which I have ordered to be 

 made for the celebration of the Holy Communion ; and also the 



1 " Such legacies were very common in former times, before any effectual 

 laws were made for the repairs of highways."--Sir JOHN CULLUM'S Uaiested, 

 p. 15. 



