336 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



The idea of R. C. that the yew-tree afforded its branches in- 

 stead of palms for the processions on Palm-sunday, is a good 

 one, and deserves attention. See Gent. Mag. Vol. L. p. 128. 



LETTER VI. 



THE living of Selborne was a very small vicarage ; but, being in 

 the patronage of Magdalen College, in the university of Oxford, 

 that society endowed it with the great tithes of Selborne, more 

 than a century ago : and since the year 1758 again with the 

 great tithes of Oakhanger, called Dene's parsonage : so that, to- 

 gether, it is become a respectable piece of preferment, to which 

 one of the fellows is always presented. The vicar holds the 

 great tithes, by lease, under the college. The great disadvantage 

 of this living is, that it has not one foot of glebe near home.* 



ITS PAYMENTS ARE 



. 8. d. 



King's books .821 



Yearly tenths 16 2 



Yearly procurations for Blackmore and Oak- ) * 



hanger Chap : with acquit : t 



Selborne procurations and acquit 9 



I am unable to give a complete list of the vicars of this parish 

 till towards the end of the reign of queen Elizabeth ; from which 

 period the registers furnish a regular series. 



In Domesday we find thus " De isto manerio dono dedit Rex 

 Radfredo presbytero dimidiam hidam cum ecclesia." So that 

 before Domesday, which was compiled between the years 1081 

 and 1086, here was an officiating minister at this place. 



After this, among my documents, I find occasional mention of 

 a vicar here and there : the first is 

 Roger, instituted in 1254. 

 In 1410 John Lynne was vicar of Selborne. 

 In 1411 Hugo Tybbe was vicar. 



The presentations to the vicarage of Selborne generally ran in 

 the name of the prior and the convent ; but Tybbe was presented 

 by prior John Wynechestre only. 



* At Bene's, or Bin's, parsonage there is a house and stout barn, and seven acres of glbe. 

 Beite's parsonage is three miles from the church. 



