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"pounds to be laid out in the most necessary repairs of the 

 " church ; that is, in strengthening and securing such parts as 

 "seem decaying and dangerous". With this sum two large 

 buttresses were erected to support the east end of the south wall 

 of the church ; and the gable-end wall of the west end of the south 

 aile was new built from the ground. 



By his will also he gave "One hundred pounds to be laid 



" out on lands ; the yearly rents whereof shall be employed in 



f teaching the poor children of Selbourn parish to read and write, 



' and say their prayers and catechism, and to sew and knit : and 



' be under the direction of his executrix as long as she lives ; 



'and, after her, under the direction of such of his children and 



' their issue, as shall live in or within five miles of the said 



" parish : and on failure of any such, then under the direction 



" of the vicar of Selbourn for the time being ; but still to the 



" uses above-named ". With this sum was purchased, of Thomas 



Turville, of Hawkeley, in the county of Southampton, yeoman, and 



Hannah his wife, two closes of freehold land, commonly called 



Collier's, containing, by estimation, eleven acres, lying in Hawkeley 



aforesaid. These closes are let at this time, 1785, on lease, at 



the rate of three pounds by the year. 



This vicar also gave by will two hundred pounds towards the 

 repairs of the highways 1 in the parish of Selborne. That sum 

 was carefully and judiciously laid out in the summer of the year 

 1730, by his son John White, 2 who made a solid and firm causey 

 from Rood-green, all down Honey- lane, to a farm called Oak-woods, 

 where the sandy soil begins. This miry and gulfy lane was 

 chosen as worthy of repair, because it leads to the forest, and 

 thence through the Holt to the town of Farnham in Surrey, the 

 only market in those days for men who had wheat to sell in this 

 neighbourhood. This causey was so deeply bedded with stone, 

 so properly raised above the level of the soil, and so well drained, 

 that it has, in some degree, withstood fifty-four years of neglect 

 and abuse ; and might, with moderate attention, be rendered a 

 solid and comfortable road. The space from Rood-green to Oak- 

 woods measures about three quarters of a mile. 



In 1727, William Henry Cane, B.D. became vicar; and, among 

 several alterations and repairs, new-built the back front of the 

 vicarage-house. 



1 "Such legacies were very common in former times, before any effectual laws 

 were made for the repairs of highways." Sir John Cullum's Hawsted, p. 15. 



2 [Father of Gilbert White.] 



