344 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



original, 1 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 cujuslibet alterius domus religiosee subjectione libera per- 

 maneat, et in omnibus absoluta" to show how much Dugdale 

 was mistaken when he inserted Selborne among the alien pri- 

 ories ; forgetting that this disposition of the convent contradicted 

 the grant that he had published. In the Monasticon Angli- 

 canum, in English, p. 119, is part of his catalogue of alien 

 priories, suppressed 2 Henry V. viz. 1414, where maybe seen 

 as follows, 



S. Sele, Sussex. SELEBURN. Shirburn. 



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, remove- 

 able at will : whereas the priory of Selborne possessed the val- 

 uable 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 tota mora [a moor or bog] ubi Berne oritur, 

 usque ad campum vivarii, et de prato voc. Sydenmeade cum 

 abutt : et de cursu aque molendini." And also a grant in rever- 

 sion " unius virgate terre," [a yard land] in Achangre at the 

 death of Richard Actedene his sister's husband, who had no 

 child. He was to present a pair of gloves of one penny value to 

 the prior and canons, to be given annually by the said Richard ; 

 and to quit all claim to the said lands in reversion, provided the 

 prior and canons would engage annually to pay to the king, 

 through the hands of his bailiffs of Aulton, ten shillings at four 

 quarterly payments, " pro omnibus serviciis, consuetudinibus, 

 exactionibus, et demandis." 



Stoke ; magistro Willode sancte Marie ecclesia, tune official! nostro ; Luca archidiacon' de SUIT.' 

 magistro Humfrido de Millers, Henrico & Hugone capellauis, Roberto de Clinchamp, et Petro 

 Rossmol clericis, et imiltis aliis. Datum apud Wines* per inanum P. de cancellis. ID die sane- 

 torum martirum Fabiani et Sebastiani. Anno Domi millesiuio ducentesimo tricesimo tercio. 



Seal, two saints and a bishop praying : 



Legend: SVT. M. S1T. BONI. PBTR' PAVL' 6 PATRON1. 

 * Probably Wolvesey-house, neat Winchester. 



