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competent to such a grant, I cannot say ; but that the 

 priors of Selborne did take that privilege is plain, be- 

 cause some years afterward, in 1280, Prior Richard 

 granted to Henry Waterford and his wife Nicholaa a 

 license to build an oratory in their court house, " curia 

 sua de Waterford,'* in which they might celebrate divine 

 service, saving the rights of the mother church of 

 Basynges. Yet all the while the prior of Selborne 

 grants with such reserve and caution, as if in doubt of 

 his power, and leaves Gurdon and his lady answerable 

 in future to the bishop, or his ordinary, or to the vicar 

 for the time being, in case they should infringe the rights 

 of the mother church of Selborne. 



TEMPLE, IN THE PARISH OF 



The manor house called Temple is at present a single 

 building, running in length from south to north, and has 

 been occupied as a common farm house from time im- 

 memorial. The south end is modern, and consists of 

 a brewhouse, and then a kitchen, The middle part is 

 a hall twenty-seven feet in length, and nineteen feet in 

 breadth ; and has been formerly open to the top ; but 

 there is now a floor above it, and also a chimney in the 



