308 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



totam terram, &c., cum omnibus libertatibus in bosco et piano, in 

 viis et semitis, pratis et pascuis ; aquis et piscariis ; infra 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 tal- 

 lagiis, et shiris et hundredis, et placitis et querelis, et warda, et ward- 

 peny, et opibus castellorum et pontium, et clausuris parcorum, et 

 omni carcio et sumagio, et domor: regal: edificatione, et omnimoda 

 reparatione, et cum omnibus aliis libertatibus." This grant was 

 made out by Richard bishop of Chichester, then chancellor, at the 

 town of Northampton, before the lord chief justiciary, who was the 

 founder himself. 



The charter of foundation of the priory, dated 1233, comes next 

 in order to be considered ; but being of some length, I shall not 

 interrupt my narrative by placing it here. This my copy, taken 

 from the original, I have compared with Dugdale'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 cnjuslibet alterius domns religiosce s^tbject^one libera per- 

 maneat, et in omnibus absohtta" 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. 



Shirburn. 



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 their priors little more than bailiffs removeable 

 at will ; whereas the priory of Selborne possessed the valuable estates 

 and manors of Selborne, Achangre, Norton, Brompden, Bassinges, 

 Basingstoke, and Natele, and the prior challenged the right of 

 pillory, thurcet, and furcas, and every manorial privilege. 



I find next a grant from Jo de Venur, or Venuz, to the prior of 



