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also soon sold to the Bishop of Winchester some adjoining 

 grounds, through which our stream passes, that the priory might 

 be accommodated with a mill, which was a common necessary 

 appendage to every manor : he also allowed access to these lands 

 by a road for carts and waggons. " Jacobus de ISTortun concedit 

 Petro Winton episcopo totum cm-sum aque que descendit de 

 Molendino de Durton, usq ; ad boscutn Will. Mauduit, et 

 croftam terre vocat : Edriche croft, cum extensione ejusdem et 

 abuttamentis ; ad fundandam domum religiosam de ordine Sti. 

 Augustini. Concedit etiam viam ad carros, et caretas," &c. 

 This vale, down which runs the brook, is now called the Long 

 Lithe, or Lythe. Bating the following particular expression, 

 this grant runs much in the style of the former : " Dedit mihi 

 episcopus predictus triginta quinque marcas argenti ad me 

 ucquietandum versus Judccos." That is, " The bishop advanced 

 me thirty-five marks of silver to pay my debts to the Jews," 

 who were then the only lenders of money. 



Finding himself still straitened for room, the founder 

 applied to his royal master, Henry, who was graciously pleased 

 to bestow certain lands in the manor at Selbome on the new 

 priory of his favourite minister. These grounds had been the 

 property of Stephen de Lucy ; and, abutting upon the narrow 

 limits of the convent, became a very commodious and agreeable 

 acquisition. This grant, I find, was made on March the 9th, in 

 the eighteenth year of Henry, viz. 1234, being two years after 

 the foundation of the monastery. The royal donor bestowed 

 his favour with a good grace, by adding to it almost every 

 immunity and privilege that could have been specified in the 

 law-language of the times. " Quare volumus prior, &c., habeant 

 totam terram, &c., cum omnibus libertatibus in bosco et piano, 

 in viis et semitis, pratis et pascuis ; aquis et piscariis ; infra 

 burgmn, 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, vice comitum, et omn : ministralium suormii ; 

 et hidagio et exercitibus, et scutagiis, et tallagiis, et shiris et 

 hundredis, et placitis et querelis, et warda et wardpeny, et 



