A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



MAGDALEN COLLEGE, 

 OXFORD. Loxengy er- 

 mine and table a chief 

 sable with threi garden 

 lilies therein. 



' dcy-house.' 19 At the time of the impropriation to 

 Magdalen the house was probably much out of repair, 

 and disuse brought prompt decay, since the college 

 seems to have made no use of any part of it except 

 the chantry chapel and two 

 rooms for the chantry priest, 

 who was to reside at the priory 

 and continue the masses for the 

 benefactors of the priory, * not 

 absenting himself for more than 

 two months in a year and then 

 finding a substitute. He was 

 to have a stipend of S and the 

 two chambers on the north side 

 of the chapel, with a kitchen 

 and a stable for three horses, 

 and the orchard.* 1 In 1534 

 this office was granted to Nicho- 

 las LangrishorLangerige to hold 



for forty years." The said stipend was appointed for 

 his salary not only for service at the chapel but also 

 as superintendent of the woods and copses of Magdalen 

 College in the parish. 1 " 



Meanwhile apparently the priory lands had been 

 leased at some time in the reign of Henry VII to 

 Henry Newlyn," who built a farmhouse and two 

 barns on the south side of the priory, almost certainly 

 out of some of the materials from the ruined house. 

 A later lease for twenty years at an annual value of 

 6, K made in 1526 to John Sharp, mentions this 

 house and barns and also a stable and a dovecote, which 

 may have been that of the prior and convent.* 6 

 The ravages of time, weather, and man have swept 

 away every trace of the original building except 

 one bit of wall hardly ten feet long, probably part 

 of an outhouse. Part of the south side of the 

 church was uncovered some years since, and a 

 careful excavation of the site would probably reveal 

 much of the original arrangements of the buildings. 

 A few pieces of thirteenth-century detail lie on 

 the site." 



Grange Farm at the corner of Gracious Street 

 stands on the original site of Selborne Grange. In 

 1535 the farm of ' one tenement called Selborne 

 Grange,' which had belonged to the Priory and Con- 

 vent of Selborne, together with the rents from various 

 tenancies belonging to the same, was entered at 

 15 4_r. 88 The old grange existed until about the end 

 of the seventeenth century, when it was replaced by 

 the modern farm buildings. It was the manor-house 

 of the convent possessions in Selborne, and at the 

 present day the court-baron and court -leet are held 



by Magdalen College twice yearly in the wheat barn 

 belonging to Grange Farm. A luncheon and dinner 

 are given at the farm, and the usual presentments 

 made as to trespass and surrender of estates are 

 recorded." 



The prior and convent had a corn-mill at the 

 priory to which they had the right of multure. 

 Repairs for this mill were entered in the rent-roll of 

 I463, 30 and in 1535 the farm of the mill was entered 

 at l 3 s - 4^- 31 The mill was in use during the 

 seventeenth century, and in 1640 was leased with the 

 other mills that had belonged to the prior and 

 convent to John Hook. 3 ' The ruins of the mill 

 house were standing within Gilbert White's memory, 

 and when he wrote, the pond, the dam, and 

 the miller's house also remained, 83 and at the present 

 day remains of the sluices and ponds are still to be 

 seen. 



A mill also existed at Dorton, south of the priory, 

 before 1233, in which year James de Norton made a 

 grant of his water-course ' going down from his mill 

 of Durton to the wood of Wm. Mauduit,' to Peter 

 des Roches for the house of Austin Canons that 

 he was about to found. 34 He also granted them a 

 croft and several meadows, ' with power to make pools, 

 erect mills, and do as they please on condition that 

 the " refollum " of the water should not come from 

 four perches to the mill of Durthone.' ** 



Besides the right of multure the prior and 

 convent had all ordinary manorial rights, and rights 

 of 'thurset* and 'pillory' and the more exceptional 

 right of gallows. The gallows of the prior and 

 convent were undoubtedly on the still unploughed 

 field called Kite's Hill on the south side of the King's 

 Field. The hill which this field tops still goes by the 

 name of Galley Hill, and the road over it is called 

 Galley Hill Lane. The prior and convent had a 

 weekly market on Tuesdays at their manor by grant 

 of Henry III, 36 who also gave them a yearly fair for 

 three days on the vigil, the day, and the morrow of 

 the Assumption of the B. V. Mary (14, 15 and 1 6 

 August). 37 



Apart from the manor of the prior and convent, 

 Adam, the grandfather of the famous Adam Gurdon, 38 

 held lands in Selborne in chief as early as I2o6, 39 

 but these are generally distinguished only as 'lands 

 in Selborne ' and were probably merged in the 

 manor of East Tisted in the fourteenth century. 40 



After the death of Adam Gurdon the elder, before 

 1 2 August, 1 2 3 1 , his lands, while his heir was a minor, 

 were granted to Ralph Marshall under burden of 

 maintaining Ameria widow of Adam and her children. 



19 Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 

 116. 



20 Chant. Cert. 52, No. 17. 



21 Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 

 148. 



22 Ibid. The chantry certificate says 

 for twenty-six years. 



28 Chant. Cert. 52, No. 17. Selborne 

 Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 150. 



24 Gilbert White, Antij. of Selborne, 

 Letter xxv. 



25 This tallies with the Valor. Eccl. 

 (Rec. Com.), ii, 284. 



26 Gilbert White, Antiy. of Selborne, 

 Letter xxv. 



2 ? In the hedges of the lane leading from 

 Selborne to Priory are blocks of chalk- 

 stone which have evidently come from a 

 building, presumably from the priory. In 

 Gilbert White's time, when some labour- 



ers were digging at the foundations, they 

 discovered what is termed 'a large Doric 

 capital ' and the base of a pillar on the 

 traditional site of the south transept of 

 the priory church, and at another time on 

 the traditional site of the kitchen a thick 

 stone vase, which may have been a stand- 

 ard measure for dry grain between the 

 monastery and its tenants. Gilbert White, 

 Antiq. of Selborne, Letter xxvi. 



28 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 284. 



29 Information from Mr. A. M. Downie, 

 steward of the manor. 



80 Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 

 116. 



81 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 284. 



82 Gilbert White, Antiq. of Selborne, 

 Letter xxv, footnote. 



88 Ibid. The house was inhabited as 

 late as 1717, when there is an entry on 



the parish register of the baptism of John 

 son of Philip Walton, of Priory Hill. 



84 Selborne Cnart.(Hanti Rec. Soc.), i, 6. 



Ibid, ii, 64. 



86 Ibid, i, 64. 



8 ? Chart. R. 54 Hen. Ill ; see Geneal. 

 (New Ser.), iv, 4. 



"8 See V.C.H. Hants, ii, 473. 



" King John granted the first Adam 

 12 librates in/Tisted and Selborne by ser- 

 jeanty ; Pipe R. I o John ; Ttsta de NeviII 

 (Rec. Com.), 2320, 236*; Geneal. (New 

 Ser.), iv, z. 



40 They were probably the ' i oo acres 

 of land and a rent in Selborne ' granted 

 with the manor of Tisted to James de 

 Norton by Joan daughter of the third 

 Adam, and her husband, Robert Achard, 

 in 1308. Sec account of East Tisted 

 Manor. 



