THE VICAE OF SELBOENE 15 



built a large new barn in the lower yard, removed the hovels 

 in the front court, which he laid out in walks and borders ; 

 and entirely planned the back garden, before a rude field 

 with a stone-pit in the midst of it." 



The vicar married Kebecca Luckin, the daughter 

 of a yeoman of Nore Hill, in the neighbouring 

 parish of Newton Valence. She outlived her husband 

 some years, dying in 1755 in her 91st year. He 

 died in 1727, and his virtues and charities to the 

 parish were commemorated by a tablet in the chancel 

 of the church.* 



Of their children, who lived to maturity, their son 

 John was born in 1688 and baptised at Burstow, in 

 Surrey; Mary, born in 1689, married the Eev. 

 Baptist Isaac, Kector of Whitwell and Ashwell, 

 Eutland ; Eebecca, born in 1694, married Henry 

 Snooke of Eingmer, Sussex, Esquire ; Dorothea, 

 born in 1696, married the Eev. W. H. Cane, her 

 father's successor in the vicarage of Selborne ; and 

 Elizabeth, born in 1698, married the Eev. Charles 

 White, Eector of Bradley and Swarraton, who was 

 a cousin. 



John White, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at- 

 law and J. P. for Hants, the vicar's only son who 

 lived to maturity, married on September 29th, 1719, 



* It is here recorded that "he consecrated the tithe of his fortune to pious 

 uses," viz. £950, which he specifically bequeathed " to charitable uses " by 

 his will. Inter alia he left £40 for repairs to the church, £200 for repairs 

 of the parish highways, and £100 for purchase of land, "the yearly rents 

 whereof shall be employed in teaching the poor children of Selborne parish 

 to read and write and say their prayers and Catechism, and to sew and knit." 



