LETTER VI 



THE living of Selborne was a very small vicarage ; but 

 being in the patronage of Magdalen-college, in the university 

 of Oxford, that society endowed it with the great tithes of 

 Selborne, more than a century ago : and since the year 

 1758 again with the great tithes of Oakhanger, called Bene's 

 parsonage : so that, together, it is become a respectable 

 piece of preferment, to which one of the fellows is always 

 presented. The vicar holds the great tithes, by lease, under 

 the college. The great disadvantage of this living is, that 

 it has not one foot of glebe near home. 1 



IT'S PAYMENTS ARE 



s. d. 



King's books 821 



Yearly tenths 0162^ 



Yearly procurations for Blackmorc and Oakhanger Chap. ) 



with acquit : ) J 7 



Selborne procurations and acquit : 090 



I am unable to give a complete list of the vicars of this 

 parish till towards the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; 

 from which period the registers furnish a regular series. 



In Domesday we find thus " De isto manerio dono dedit 

 Rex Radfredo presbytero dimidiam hidam cum ecclesia." 

 So that before Domesday, which was compiled between the 

 years 1081 and 1086, here was an officiating minister at 

 this place. 



1 At Bent's, or Bin's, parsonage there is a house and stout barn, and seven 



acres of glebe ; Bene's parsonage is three miles from the church. [G. W.] 



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