RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Crop which the rector used to hold. The 

 prior and convent were also ordered, at their 

 own expense, to erect anew sufficient build- 

 ings for the vicar, and -yearly to deliver to 

 him three quarters each of wheat, of barley, 

 and of oats, good measure, and if three 

 months in arrear after Michaelmas, to give 

 double. The priory was to receive all the 

 great tithes, that is the sheaves only, and they 

 were to provide candlestick, books, and bread 

 for the celebration, as well as to repair the 

 chancel and be responsible for all dues. 



The taxation roll of 1291 gives the annual 

 value of the church of Selborne and its chapel 

 at 22 ; whilst the priory is credited with an 

 income of ^9 i6s. 2d. in the archdeaconry of 

 Winchester under temporalities. 



William de Basing, the fifth prior, was 

 elected in 1299.* His name occurs in the 

 evidences from 1299 to 1323. Pardon was 

 granted on n May, 1302, to Prior William 

 and his convent for acquiring in mortmain 32 

 acres of land and 5 acres of wood in Bromdene 

 by feoffment of Walter Launcel, and 1 8 acres 

 of land there by feoffment of Richard de la 

 Putte.* In 1305 royal confirmation was 

 obtained of a grant (made long before the 

 statute of mortmain) by John de Vernuz to 

 the priory, of 20 acres of land in East World- 

 ham and the advowson of the church of that 

 town. 3 In January, 1307, licence was ob- 

 tained for the alienation in mortmain, by 

 William Turner and Alice his wife to the 

 priory of Selborne, of a messuage and 24 

 acres of land in La Rode. 4 In the following 

 May, William and Alice Turner granted to 

 the priory all their land in La Rode, after the 

 death of Alice, on condition of their granting 

 to William and Alice for life the livery of 

 one canon, namely one white loaf and one 

 gallon of beer or cider of the better drink of 

 the convent. 



Bishop Orlton visited the priory on 21 

 February, 1336, and preached in the chapter 

 house from the text ' Quicunque fecerit voluntatem 

 Patris me'i qui in ceelisest' 6 In June, 1338, 

 the bishop wrote to the prior and convent 

 with respect to the transference to their house, 

 in consequence of his excesses, of William de 

 Preston, a canon of Breamore. 6 



In January, 1339, Prior Walter entered into 

 an agreement with Roger Tichborne, son of 

 Sir John Tichborne, whereby the priory, 



Winton. Epis. Reg., Pontoise, f. 22. 

 Pat. 30 Edw. I. m. 22. 

 Ibid. 33 Edw. I. pt. I m. 15. 

 Ibid. 35 Edw. I. m. 40. 

 Winton. Epis. Reg., Orlton, i. f. 33. 

 Ibid. 6ib. 



in consideration of a grant to them of Roger's 

 whole tenement in La Rode, with its messu- 

 ages, gardens, and woods, covenanted to pay 

 six marks a year to a chaplain celebrating for 

 the soul of Roger, and John and Amicia his 

 parents, and their ancestors and successors, in 

 a chantry which he had established in the 

 chapel of his manor of Tichborne. The 

 priory also covenanted to admit from time to 

 time one fit person, presented by the said 

 Roger, as a canon of their house, and to pro- 

 vide a chaplain to celebrate daily in their 

 conventual church, at the altar of St. Stephen, 

 for the souls of Roger, John and Amice. In 

 the same year the king, when at Southampton, 

 confirmed a considerable number of recent 

 grants to the priory. 7 



On 5 June, 1352, there was another alter- 

 ation in the ordination of the vicarage of 

 Selborne, when Prior Edmund and Vicar 

 Adam Seyncler entered into an agreement, 

 ratified by the diocesan, for the increase of 

 the latter's stipend, so as to avoid a lawsuit. 

 The recent pestilence and the consequent 

 scarcity of the times had rendered an altera- 

 tion imperative. The chief additions of a 

 permanent character were four cartloads of 

 wood from Priorswood, a cartload of hay 

 from the tithe hay at Norton, and a cartload 

 of straw at the courtyard of Gurdun, each 

 load to be such as three horses could draw ; 

 and all the tithes, great and small, from the 

 tenements and lands of the prior and convent 

 which were formerly Sir Adam Gurdun's, 

 Alice Roberd's, and of the manor of Rode, 

 and of the moiety of oblations at the chapel 

 of Waddon. The vicar was to find a chap- 

 lain to celebrate in the chapels of Oakhanger 

 and Blakemere. In addition to this, there 

 were certain special provisions made for Vicar 

 Seyncler only for his life, such as a rent of 

 2s. 6d., and the tithes of wool and the mills, 

 excepting those of the convent. 



In 1376 that energetic diocesan William 

 of Wykeham suspended Prior Nicholas for 

 waste and lax administration of the spirituali- 

 ties and temporalities of the convent, placing 

 the rule of the priory's affairs in the hands of 

 the sub-prior and another of the senior canons. 

 On 7 August the bishop sent his mandate to 

 the rural dean of Alton to serve the prior 

 with three formal monitions required by the 

 canons. 8 



Eventually Prior Nicholas resigned through 

 old age and infirmity on 18 February, 1378.' 



On 29 June, 1387, Wykeham commis- 



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7 Pat. 12 Edw. III. pt. 3 m. 3. 



8 Winton Epis. Reg., Wykeham, iii. f. 1443. 



9 Ibid. i. f. 90. 



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