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to these lands by a road for carts and waggons. " Jacobus de Nortun 

 concedit Petro Winton episcopo totum cursum aque que descendit de 

 Molendino de Durton usq; ad boscum Will. Mauduit, et croftam terre 

 vocat: Edriche croft, cum extensione ejusdem et abuttamentis ; ad 

 fundandam domum religiosam de ordine Sti. Augustini. Concedit 

 etiam viam ad carros, et caretas," &c. This vale, down which runs the 

 brook, is now called the Long Lithe, or Lythe. Bating the following 

 particular expression, this grant runs much in the style of the former : 

 " Dedit mihi episcopus predictus triginta quinque marcas argenti ad 

 me acquietandum versus Judceos;" that is, "the bishop advanced me 

 thirty-five marks of silver to pay my debts to the Jews," who were then 

 the only lenders of money. 



Finding himself still straitened for room, the founder applied to 

 his royal master, Henry, who was graciously pleased to bestow certain 

 lands in the manor of Selborne on the new priory of his favourite 

 minister. These grounds had been the property of Stephen de Lucy; 

 and, abutting upon the narrow limits of the convent, became a very 

 commodious and agreeable acquisition. This grant, I find, was made 

 on March the 9th, in the eighteenth year of Henry, viz., 1234, being 

 two years after the foundation of the monastery. The royal donor 

 bestowed his favour with a good grace, by adding to it almost every 

 immunity and privilege that could have been specified in the law- 

 language of the times. " Quare volumus prior, &c., habeant totam 

 terram, &c., cum omnibus libertatibus in bosco et piano, in viis et 

 semitis, pratis et pascuis ; aquis et piscariis ; infra burgum, et extra 

 burgum, cum soka et saca, Thol et Them, Infangenethef et Utfangene- 

 thef, et hamsocne et blodwite, et pecunia que dari solet pro murdro et 

 forstal, et flemenestrick, et cum quietancia de omni scotto et geldo, 

 et de omnibus auxiliis regum, vicecomitum, et omn: ministralium 

 suorum ; et hidagio et exercitibus, et scutagiis, et tallagiis, et shiris et 

 hundredis, et placitis et querelis, et warda et wardpeny, et opibus 

 castellorum et pontium, et clausuris parcorum, et omni carcio et 

 sumagio, et domor: regal: edificatione, et omnimoda reparatione, et 

 cum omnibus aliis libertatibus." This grant was made out by 

 Eichard bishop of Chichester, then chancellor, at the town of 

 Northampton, before the lord chief justiciary, who was the founder 

 himself. 



The charter of foundation of the Priory, dated 1233, comes next in 

 order to be considered ; but being of some length, I shall not interrupt 

 my narrative by placing it here. This my copy, taken from the original, 

 I have compared with Dugdale's copy, and find that they perfectly agree ; 

 except that in the latter the preamble and the names of the witnesses 

 are omitted. Yet I think it proper to quote a passage from this 

 charter : " Et ipsa domus religiosa a cwjuslibet alterius dom&s religiosce 

 subjcctione libera permaneat, et in omnibus dbsoluta" to show how 

 much Dugdale was mistaken when he inserted Selborne among the 

 alien priories; forgetting that this disposition of the convent 

 contradicted the grant that he had published. In the " Monasticon 

 Anglicanum," in English, p. 119, is part of his catalogue of alien 



