538 ANTIQUITIES 



towards the repairs of the highways 4 in the parish of 

 Selborne. That sum was carefully and judiciously 

 laid out in the summer of the year 1730, by his son 

 John White, who made a solid and firm causey from 

 Rood Green, all down Honey Lane, to a farm called 

 Oak Woods, where the sandy soil begins. This miry 

 and gulfy lane was chosen as worthy of repair, because 

 it leads to the forest, and thence through the Holt to 

 the town of Farnham in Surrey, the only market in 

 those days for men who had wheat to sell in this neigh- 

 bourhood. This causey was so deeply bedded with 

 stone, so properly raised above the level of the soil, and 

 so well drained, that it has, in some degree, withstood 

 fifty-four years of neglect and abuse ; and might, with 

 moderate attention, be rendered a solid and comfortable 

 road. The space from Rood Green to Oak Woods 

 measures about three quarters of a mile. 



In 1727, William Henry Cane, B. D. became vicar ; 

 and, among several alterations and repairs, new built 

 the back front of the vicarage house. 



On February 1, 1740, Buncombe Bristowe, D. D. was 

 instituted to this living. What benefactions this vicar 

 bestowed on the parish will be best explained by the 

 following passages from his will: "Item, I hereby 

 give and bequeath to the minister and churchwardens 

 of the parish of Selbourn, in the county of Southampton, 

 a mahogany table, which I have ordered to be made 

 for the celebration of the Holy Communion ; and also 

 the sum of thirty pounds, in trust, to be applied in 

 manner following ; that is, ten pounds towards the 

 charge of erecting a gallery at the west end of the 

 church ; and ten pounds to be laid out for clothing, and 

 such like necessaries, among the poor (and especially 

 among the ancient and infirm) of the said parish : and 

 the remaining ten pounds to be distributed in bread, 



4 " Such legacies were very common in former times, before any effec- 

 tual laws were made for the repairs of highways." Sir John Cullum's 

 Hawsted, p. 15. 



