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cellar and well : he also built a large new barn in the lower 

 yard, removed the hovels in the front court, which he laid 

 out in walks and borders ; and entirely planned the back 

 garden, before a rude field with a stone-pit in the midst 

 of it. By his will he gave and bequeathed "the sum of 

 forty 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. 1 



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

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

 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. 2 

 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 3 in the parish of Selborne. That 



1 See Mr. Railton's sketch of the tablet in this wall, inserted in memory of the 

 vicar, by whose legacy it was restored. " G. W., 1730." [R. B. S.] 



2 This was the scene of the great landslip described in Letter XLV. to 

 Barrington \antea, p. 147], and also in John White's letter of April 6, 1774, to 

 his cousin, Samuel Barker, reproduced in Bell's edition (vol. ii. p. 103) : 

 " During the vast rains, a large fragment of the Hanger, late my grandfather's, 

 &c." [R. B. S.] 



* " 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. 

 [G. W.] 



