ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



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also did, for the health of his own soul and that of his wife 

 Constantia, their predecessors and successors, grant to the prior 

 and canons quiet possession of all the tenements and gardens, 

 " curtillagia? which they had built and laid out on the lands in 

 Selborne, on which he and his vassals, "homines" had undoubted 

 right of common ; and moreover did grant to the convent the full 

 privilege of that right of common, and empowered the religious 





VILLAGE FLEYSTOW. 



to build tenements and make gardens along the king's highway 

 in the village of Selborne. 



From circumstances put together, it appears that the above were 

 the first grants obtained by the priory in the village of Selborne 

 after it had subsisted about thirty-nine years ; moreover, they 

 explain the nature of the mixed manor still remaining in and 



