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confess, we do not understand. Strete, in old English, signifies a road 

 or highway, as Wailing Strete, &c., therefore the prior might have some 

 mill on a high road. The priory had only one mill originally at 

 Selborne ; but, by grants of lands, it came possessed of one at Durton, 

 and one at Oakhanger, and probably some on its other several manors.* 

 The mill at the priory was in use within the memory of man, and the 

 ruins of the mill-house were standing within these thirty years : the 

 pond and dam, and miller's dwelling, still remain. As the stream was 

 apt to fail in very dry summers, the tenants found their situation very 

 distressing, for want of water, and so were forced to abandon the spot. 

 This inconvenience was probably never felt in old times, when the 

 whole district was nothing but woodlands : and yet several centuries 

 ago there seem to have been two or three mills between Well Head 

 and the priory. For the reason of this assertion, see Letter XXIX. to 

 Mr. Barrington. 



Occasional mention has been made of the many privileges and 

 immunities enjoyed by the convent and its priors ; but a more 

 particular state seems to be necessary. The author, therefore, thinks this 

 the proper place, before he concludes these antiquities, to introduce all 

 that has been collected by the judicious Bishop Tanner, respecting the 

 Priory and its advantages, in his " Notitia Monastica," a book now 

 seldom seen, on account of the extravagance of its price, and being but 

 in few hands cannot be easily consulted, f He also adds a few of its 

 many privileges from other authorities : the account is as follows. 

 Tanner, page 166. 



SELBURNE. M ; 



A priory of black canons, founded by the often-nrStttioned Peter 

 de Eupibus, Bishop of Winchester, A.D. 1233, and dedicated to the 

 blessed Virgin Mary ; but was suppressed, and granted to William 

 Wainfleet, Bishop of Winchester, who made it part of the endowment 

 of St. Mary Magdalene College in Oxford. The Bishops of Winchester 

 were patrons of it. [Pat. 17, Edward II.] Vide Mon. Ang. torn ii. p. 343. 

 " Cartam fundationis ex ipso autographo in archivis Coll. Magd. Oxon. 

 ubi etiam conservata sunt registra, cartae, rentali et alia munimenta ad 

 mine prioratum spectantia. 



" Extracta qusedam e registro MSS. in bibl. Bodl. Dodworth, vol. 

 89, f. 140. 



" Cart, antiq. K K n. 33. P. P. n. 48. et 71. Q. Q. n. 40. plac. coram 

 justit. itin. [Southampton] 20 Hen. rot. 25. De eccl. de Basing & 

 Basingstoke. Plac. de juratis apud Winton. 40 Hen. IK. rot. 

 Protecta molendini de Strete. Cart. 54. Hen. III. m. 3. [De mercatu, 

 & feria apud Seleborne, a mistake.] Pat. 9. Edw. I. m. Pat. 30. 

 Edw. I. m. Pat. 33. Edw. I. p. i. m. Pat. 35. Edw. I. m. Pat. i. 

 Edw. II. p. i. m. 9. Pat. 5. Edw. II. p. i. m. 21. De terris in Ach- 



* Thomas Knowles, president, &c. ann. Hen. 8vi. xxiii . [1532] demised to 

 J. Whitelie their mills. &c. for twenty years. Bent xxiiis. iiiid. Accepted 

 Frewen, president, &c. ann. Caroli xv. [viz. 1640.] demised to Jo. Hook and 

 Elizabeth his wife, the said mills. Kent as above. 



t A few days after this was written a new edition of this valuable work was 

 announced, in. the month of April of the year 1787, as published by Mr. Nasmith 



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