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each other, and were intermixed, yet we see that those two 

 societies of Religions lived on the best of terms, in an inter- 

 course of mutual good offices, exchanging lands and per- 

 mitting roads to be opened for each other's mutual conve- 

 nience. We see also that Blackmere and Bradshott, names 

 well known to modern ears, were also familiar to the neigh- 

 bourhood four or five hundred years ago. 



I expect Dr. Chandler soon, and regret much (and he as- 

 sures me he does the same) that the statutes will not permit 

 him to bring with him the Archive papers to Selborne, which 

 contain much knowledge concerning the antiquities of this 

 place — information that has never been pryed into, but has 

 slumbered within the college walls ever since they were 

 founded. 



We have drowning weather and a dismal black solstice. 

 Such rains make carriage very irksome, and the attendance on 

 building very comfortless, and brick-burning very precarious ; 

 but the walls, I trust, will be the stronger, since the mortar is 

 better blended into the chinks and crevices during so sloppy 

 a season. Let me hear how you have sold your oak timber. 



Yours, &c. 



GIL. WHITE. 



LETTER XXVI. 



FROM DR. CHANDLER 

 (accompanying G. W.'s letter to his brother Thomas, June 30, 1777). 



Oxford, June 14, 1777. 

 Dear Sir, 

 I find five deeds with the seal of the Temple annexed to them. 

 In the Index the first is No. 2. " Concessio Rob. Samford 

 militis Templi cum assensu Capituli Priori et Conventui de 

 Selborne totius tenementi cum omnibus pertinentiis hab. de 

 dono Aymerici de Vasci " sine dato. No. 26 "Concessio 

 similis priori." Of these the first is tolerably easy to be read. 



