286 THE ANTIQUITIES 



Prior de Selebourn habet maneria de 



Bromdene taxat. ad-------- xxx s. ii d. 



Apud Schete ad --------- xvii s. 



P. Selebourn ad --------- vi lib. 



In civitate Wynton de reddit ----- vi lib. viii ob. 



Tannaria sua taxat. ad-------x lib. s. 



Summa tax. xxxviii lib. xiiii d. ob. Inde decima vi lib. s. q. ob. 



LETTER XVII. 



INFORMATION being sent to Rome respecting the havock and spoil 

 that was carrying on among the revenues and lands of the Priory 

 of Selborne, as we may suppose by the bishop of Winchester, it's 

 visitor, Pope Martin, 1 as soon as the news of these proceedings 

 came before him, issued forth a bull, in which he enjoins his com- 

 missary immediately to revoke all the property that had been 

 alienated. 



In this instrument his holiness accuses the prior and canons of 

 having granted away (they themselves and their predecessors) to 

 certain clerks and laymen their tithes, lands, rents, tenements, 

 and possessions, to some of them for their lives, to others for an 

 undue term of years, and to some again for a perpetuity, to the 

 great and heavy detriment of the monastery : and these leases 

 were granted, he continues to add, under their own hands, with 

 the sanction of an oath and the renunciation of all right and 

 claims, and under penalties, if the right was not made good. 

 But it will be best to give an abstract from the bull. 



N. 298. Pope Martins bull touching the revoking of certaine 

 things alienated from the Priory of Seleburne. Pontif. sui. ann. 1. 



" Martinus Eps. servus servorum Dei. Dilecto filio Priori de 

 "Suthvale 2 Wyntonien. dioc. Salutem & apostolicam ben. Ad 

 "audientiam nostram pervenit quam tarn dilecti filii prior et 

 "conventus monasterii de Seleburn per Priorem soliti gubernari 

 " ordinis S tl . Augustini Winton. dioc. quam de predecessores eorum 

 " decimas, terras, redditus, domos, possessiones, vineas* et quedam 



1 Pope Martin V. chosen about 1417. He attempted to reform the church, but 

 died in 1431, just as he had summoned the council of Basil. 



2 Should have been no doubt Southwick, a priory under Portsdown. 



3 Mr. Barrington is of opinion that anciently the English vinea was in almost 

 every instance an orchard ; not perhaps always of apples merely, but of other 



