342 ANTiaUITIES OP SELBORNE. 



seller in the conveyance says " Warantizabimus, defendemus, et 

 aequietabimus contra omnes gentes ;" viz. " We will warrant the 

 thing sold against all claims from any quarter." In modern 

 conveyancing this would be termed a covenant for further as- 

 surance. Afterwards is added, " Pro hac autem donacione, &c. 

 dedit mihi pred. Episcopus sexdecem marcas argenti in Ger- 

 sumam :" i. e. "the bishop gave me sixteen silver marks as a 

 consideration for the thing purchased." 



As the grant from Jac. de Achangre was without date,* and 

 the next is circumstanced in the same manner, we cannot say 

 exactly what interval there was between the two purchases ; but 

 we find that Jacobus de Nortun, a neighbouring gentleman, also 

 soon sold to the bishop of Winchester some adjoining grounds, 

 through which our stream passes, that the priory might be ac- 

 commodated with a mill, which was a common necessary appen- 

 dage to every manor : he also allowed access to these lands by a 

 road for carts and waggons. "Jacobus de Nortun concedit 

 Petro Winton episcopo totum cursum aque que descendit d$ 

 Molendino de Durton usq ; ad boscum Will. Mauduit, et crof- 

 tam terre vocat : Edriche croft, cum extensione ejusdem et abut- 

 tamentis ; 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 ac- 

 quietandum versus Judaeos." 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 straightened for room, the founder ap- 

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

 bestow certain lands in the manor at Selborne 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 acqui- 

 sition. 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 



t The custom of affixing dates to deeds was not become general in the reign of Henry III. 



