ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 211 



The idea of R. C. that the yew-tree afforded its branches instead of 

 palms for the processions on Palm Sunday, is a good one, and deserves 

 attention. See " Gent. Mag." vol. 1. p. 128. 



LETTEE 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.* 



ITS PAYMENTS ARE . S. d. 



King's books 821 



Yearly tenths . 16 2 



Yearly procurations for Blackmore and Oakhanger ) , ^ 



Chap, with acquit ) 



Selborne procurations and acquit. .... 9 



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 Eex 

 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. 



After this, among my documents, I find occasional mention of a 

 vicar here and there ; the first is 



Roger, instituted in 1254. 



In 1410 John Lynne was vicar of Selborne. 



In 1411 Hugo Tybbe was vicar. 



The presentations to the vicarage of Selborne generally ran in the 

 name of the prior and the convent ; but Tybbe was presented by Prior 

 John Wynechestre only. 



June 29, 1528, William Fisher, vicar of Selborne, resigned to Miles 

 Peyrson. 



1594, William White appears to have been vicar to this time. Of this 

 person there is nothing remarkable, but that he hath made a regular 

 entry twice in the register of Selborne of the funeral of Thomas Cowper, 

 bishop of Winchester, as if he had been buried at Selborne ; yet this 

 learned prelate, who died 1594, was buried at Winchester, in the 

 cathedral, near the episcopal throne, f 



1595, Richard Boughton, vicar. 



* At Bene'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, 

 f See " Godwin de Prsesulibus, " Folio Cant. 1743, p. 239. 



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