ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 39^ 



Selborne pro termino 40 annorum, si tarn diu vixerit. Ubi 

 dictus mag r . Nicholaus celebrabit pro animabus omnium bene- 

 factorum dicti prioratus et coll. nostri, et omnium fidelium 

 defunctorum. Insuper nos, &c. concedimus eidem ibidem cele- 

 branti in sustentationem suam quandam annualem pensionem 

 sive annuitatem octo librarum &c. in dicta capella dicti prioratus. 

 concedimus duas cameras contiguas ex parte boreali dicte 

 capelle, cum una coquina, et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro 

 tribus equis, cum pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard 

 Preterea 26s. 8d. per ann. ad inveniendum unum clericum ad 

 serviendum sibi ad altare, et aliis negotiis necessariis ejus." His 

 wood to be granted him by the president on the progress. He 

 was not to absent himself beyond a certain time ; and was to 

 superintend the coppices, wood, and hedges. "Dat. 5 to . die 

 Julii. an". Hen. VIII vi . 36." [viz. 1546.] 



Here we see the Priory in a new light, reduced as it were to 

 the state of a chantry, without prior and without canons, and 

 attended only by a priest, who was also a sort of bailiff or wood- 

 man, his assistant clerk, and his female cook. Owen Oglethorpe, 

 president, and Magd. Coll. in the fourth year of Edward VI. 

 viz. 1551, granted an annuity of ten pounds a year for life to 

 Nich. Langrish, who, from the preamble, appears then to have 

 been fellow of that society ; but, being now superannuated for 

 business, this pension is granted him for thirty years, if he should 

 live so long. It is said of him" cum jam sit provectioris etatis 

 quam ut," &c. 



Laurence Stubb, president of Magd. Coll. leased out the Priory 

 lands to John Sharp, husbandman, for the term of twenty years, 

 as early as the seventeenth year of Henry VIII. viz. 1526 : and 

 it appears that Henry Newlyn had been in possession of a lease 

 before, probably towards the end of the reign of Henry VII. 

 Sharp's rent was vi 11 . per ann. Regist. B. p. 43. 



By an abstract from a lease lying before me, it appears that 

 Sharp found a house, two barns, a stable, and a duf-house, [dove- 

 house] built, and standing on the south side of the old Priory, 

 and late in the occupation of Newlyn. In this abstract also are 

 to be seen the names of all the fields, many of which continue 

 the same to this day.* Of some of them I shall take notice, 

 where any thing singular occurs. 



* It may not be amiss to mention here that various names of tithings, farms, fields, woods, &c. 

 which appear in the ancient deeds, and evidences of several centuries standing:, are still preserved 

 in common use with little or no variation : as Norton, Southington, Durton, Achangre, Black- 



