ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 367 



several centuries ago there seem to have been two or three mills 

 between Well Head and the priory. For the reason of this 

 assertion, see Letter XXIX. to Mr. Barrington. 



Occasional mention has been made of the many privileges and 

 immunities enjoyed by the convent and its priors ; but a more 

 particular state seems to be necessary. The author, therefore, 

 thinks this the proper place, before he concludes these antiquities, 

 to introduce all that has been collected by the judicious Bishop 

 Tanner, respecting the priory and its advantages, in his " Notitia 

 Monastica," a book now seldom seen, on account of the extrava- 

 gance of its price, and being but in few hands cannot be easily 

 consulted.* He also adds a few of its many privileges from other 

 authorities : the account is as follows. Tanner, page 166. 



SELBURNE. 



A priory of black canons, founded by the often-mentioned Peter 

 de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, A.D. 1233, and dedicated to 

 the Blessed Virgin Mary ; but was suppressed, and granted to 

 William Wainfleet, Bishop of Winchester, who made it part of the 

 endowment of St. Mary Magdalene College in Oxford. The 

 Bishops of Winchester were patrons of it. [Pat. 17, Edward II.] 

 Vide Mon. Ang. torn. ii. p. 343. " Cartam fundationis ex ipso 

 autographo in archivis Coll. Madg. Oxon. ubi etiam conservata sunt 

 registra, cartae, rentali et alia munimenta ad hunc prioratum 

 spectantia. 



"Extracta quredam e registro MSS. in bibl. Bodl. Dodworth, 

 vol. 89, f. 140.- 



" Cart, antiq. N. N. n. 33. P. P. n. 48. et 71. Q. O. n. 40. plac. 

 corarn justit. itin. [Southampton] 20 Hen. rot. 25. De eccl. de 

 Basing & Basingstoke. Plac. de juratis apud Winton. 40 Hen. 

 III. rot. Protecta molendini de Strete. Cart. 54. Hen. III. m. 3. 

 [De mercatu, & feria apud Seleborne, a mistake.] Pat. 9. Edw. I. 

 m. Pat. 30. Edw. I. m Pat. 33. Edw. I. p. i. m. Pat. 35. Edw. 

 I. m. Pat. i. Edw. IL p. i.-m. 9. Pat. 5. Edw. II. p. i. m. 21. 

 De terris in Achanger. Pat. 6. Edw. II. p. i. m. 7. de eisdem. 

 Brev. in Scacc. 6. Edw. II. Pasch. rot. 8. Pat. 17. Edw. II. p. i. m. 

 Cart. 10. Edw. III. n. 24. Quod terras suce in Seleburn, 

 Achangre, Norton, Basings, Basingstoke, and Nately, sint de 



* A few days after this was written a. new edition of this valuable work was announced 

 in the month of April of the year 1787, as published by Mr. Nasmith. 



