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opibus castellorum et pontium, et clausuris parcorum, et omni 

 carcio et sumagio, et domor : regal : edih'catione, et omnimoda 

 reparatione, 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. 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 cujmlibet alterius domfa 

 reliffioscc subjectione libcra permaneat, et in omnibus absoluta " 

 to show how much Dugdale was mistaken when he inserted 

 Selborne among the alien priories ; forgetting that this dis- 

 position 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. 



S E L E B U R N. 



Shirbnrn. 



This appeared to me from the first to have been an oversight, 

 before I had seen my authentic evidences. For priories alien, 

 a few conventual ones excepted, were little better than granges 

 to foreign abbeys : and their priors little more than bailiffs, 

 removable at will: whereas the priory of Selborne possessed 

 the valuable estates and manors of Selborne, Achangre, Norton, 

 Brompden, Bassinges, Basingstoke, and Natele ; and the prior 

 challenged the right of Pillory, Thurcet, and Furcas, and every 

 manorial privilege. 



I find next a grant from Jo. de Venur, or Venuz, to the prior 

 of Selborne " de tola mora [a moor or bog] ubi Berne oritur 



