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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 parish 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 Oakwoods, 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, withstood 

 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, B.D., became vicar ; 

 and, among several alterations and repairs, new-built the 

 back front of the vicarage-house. 



On February i, 1740, Duncombe Bristowe, D.D., was 

 instituted to this living. What benefactions this vicar 

 bestowed on the parish will be best explained by the follow- 

 ing 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 sum of thirty 

 pounds, in trust, to be applied in manner following ; that 



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

 effectual laws were made for the repairs of highways." Sir John Cullum's 

 Hawsted, p. 15. 



