OF SELBORNE. 545 



I have compared with Dugd ale's copy, and find that 

 they perfectly agree ; except that in the latter the 

 preamble and the names of the witnesses are omitted. 

 Yet I think it proper to quote a passage from this 

 charter " Et ipsa domus religiosa a cujusllbet alterius 

 domus religiosce subjectione libera permaneat, etin omnibus 

 absolute? to show how much Dugdale was mistaken 

 when he inserted Selborne among the alien priories ; for- 

 getting that this disposition of the convent contradicted 

 the grant that he had published. In the Monasticon 

 Anglicanum, in English, p. 119, is part of his catalogue 

 of alien priories, suppressed 2 Henry V. viz. 1414, where 

 may be seen as follows : 



S. 

 Sele, Sussex. 



SELEBURN. 



Shir burn. 



This appeared to me from the first to have been an 

 oversight, before I had seen my authentic evidences. 

 For priories alien, a few conventual ones excepted, 

 were little better than granges to foreign abbeys ; and 



cadem donio religiosa de Seleburne ordo canonicus, et regularis conver- 

 satio, secundum regulam magni patris Augustini, quam primi inhabita- 

 tores professi sunt, in perpetuum observetur ; et ipsa domus religiosa a 

 cujuslibet alterius domus religiose subjectione libera permaneat, et in 

 omnibus absoluta ; salva in omnibus episcopali auctoritate, et WintMi 

 ecclesie dignitate. Quod ut in posterum ratum permaneat et inconcus- 

 sum, present! scripto et sigilli nostri patrocinis duximus confirmandum. 

 His testibus domino Waltero abbate de Hyda. Domino Walters Priore de 

 sancto Swithuno, domino Stephano priore de Motesfonte, magistro J /anode 

 Stoke; magistro Willo de saucte Marie ecclesia, tune official! nostro ; 

 Luca archidiacon' de surr'. magistro Huntfrido de Millers, Henrico & 

 Hugone capellanis, Roberto de Clinchamp, et Petro Rossinol clericis, et 

 multis aliis. Datum apud Wines* per manum P. de cancellis. Indie 

 sanctorum martirum Fabiani et Sebastiani. Anno Domi milesimo ducen- 

 tesimo tricesimo tercio. 



Seal, two saints and a bishop praying: 

 Legend: SVI. M. SIT6. BONI. P6TR' PAVL' 6 PATRONI. 



* Probably Wolvesey-house near Winchester. 



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