THE ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE 269 



have befallen the Priory at Selborne. Those situate on 

 public roads, or in great towns where there were shrines 

 of saints, were liable to be intruded on by travellers, 

 devotees and pilgrims ; and were subject to the impor- 

 tunity of the poor, who swarmed at their gates to partake 

 of doles and broken victuals. Of these disadvantages some 

 convents used to complain, and especially those at Canter- 

 bury ; but this Priory, from its sequestered situation, could 

 seldom be subject to either of these inconveniences, and 

 therefore we must attribute it's frequent debts and em- 

 barrassments, well endowed as it was, to the bad conduct 

 of it's members, and a general inattention to the interests 

 of the institution. 



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