234 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



The first person with whom the founder treated about 

 the purchase of land was Jacobus de Achangre, or Ochangre, 

 a gentleman of property who resided at that hamlet ; and, 

 as appears, at the house now called Oakhanger-house. 

 With him he agreed for a croft, or little close of land, 

 known by the name of La liega, or La Lyge, which was to 

 be the immediate site of the Priory. 



De Achangre also accommodated the bishop at the same 

 instant with three more adjoining crofts, which for a time 

 was all the footing that this institution obtained in the 

 parish. The seller in the conveyance says, "Warantiza- 

 bimus, defendemus, et aequietabimus, contra omnes gentes : " 

 viz., "We will warrant the thing sold against all claims 

 from any quarter." In modern conveyancing this would 

 be termed a covenant for further assurance. Afterwards is 

 added " pro hac autem donacione, &c., dedit mihi pred. 

 Episcopus sexdecem marcas argenti in Gersumam ; " i.e., 

 "the bishop gave me sixteen silver marks as a considera- 

 tion for the thing purchased." 



As the grant homjac. de Achangre was without date, 1 

 and the next is circumstanced in the same manner, we 

 cannot say exactly what interval there was between the 

 two purchases ; but we find that Jacobus de Nortun, a 

 neighbouring gentleman, also soon sold to the bishop of 

 Winchester some adjoining grounds, through which our 

 stream passes, that the priory might be accommodated 

 with a mill, which was a common necessary appendage 

 to every manor : he also allowed access to these lands by 

 a road for carts and waggons. "Jacobus de Nortun con- 

 cedit Petro Winton episcopo totum cursum aque que 

 descendit de Molendino de Durton usq ; ad boscum Will. 

 Mauduit, et croftam terre vocat : Edriche croft, cum ex- 

 tensione ejusdem et abuttamentis ; ad fundandam domum 



that a black cloak and hood. The monks were always shaved ; but these canons 

 wore their hair and beards, and caps on their heads. There were of these 

 canons, and women of the same order called Canonesses, about 175 houses. 

 [G. W.] 



1 The custom of affixing dates to deeds was not become general in the reign 

 of Henry III. [G. W.] 



