OF SELBORNE. 543 



" Jacobus de Nortun concedit Petro Winton episcopo 

 totum cursum aque que descend!! de Molendino de 

 Durton, usq ; ad boscum Will. Mauduit, et croftam 

 terre vocat : Edriche croft, cum extensione ejusdem et 

 abuttamentis ; ad fundandam domum religiosam de 

 ordine Sti. Augustini. Concedit etiam viam ad carros, 

 et caretas," &c. This vale, down which runs the brook, 

 is now called the Long Lithe, or Lythe. Bating the fol- 

 lowing particular expression, this grant runs much in 

 the style of the former ; " Dedit mihi episcopus predic- 

 tus triginta quinque marcas argenti ad me acquietandum 

 versus Judceos" That is, " the bishop advanced me 

 thirty-five marks of silver to pay my debts to the Jews," 

 who were then the only lenders of money. 



Finding himself still straitened for room, the founder 



applied to his royal master, Henry, who was graciously 



pleased to bestow certain lands in the manor at Selborne 



on the new priory of his favourite minister. These 



grounds had been the property of Stephen de Lucy; 



and, abutting upon the narrow limits of the convent, 



became a very commodious and agreable acquisition. 



This grant, I find, was made on March the 9th, in the 



eighteenth year of Henry, viz. 1234, being two years 



after the foundation of the monastery. The royal donor 



bestowed his favour with a good grace, by adding to it 



almost every immunity and privilege that could have 



been specified in the law language of the times. 



" Quare volumus prior, &c. habeant totam terram, &c. 



cum omnibus libertatibus in bosco et piano, in viis et 



semitis, pratis et pascuis; aquis et piscariis; intra 



burgum, et extra burgum, cum soka et saca, Thol et 



Them, Infangenethef et Utfangenethef, et hamsocne et 



blodwite, et pecunia que dari solet pro murdro et forstal, 



et flemenestrick, et cum quietancia de omni scotto et 



geldo, et de omnibus auxiliis regum, vicecomitum, et 



omn: ministralium suorum; et hidagio et exercitibus, 



et scutagiis, et tallagiis, et shiris et hundredis, et placitis 



et querelis, et warda et wardpeny, et opibus castellorum 



