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ployed in teaching the poor children of Selbourne parish to 

 read and write, and say their prayers and catechism, and to 

 sew and knit : and be under the direction of his executrix 

 as long as she lives ; and, after her, under the direction of 

 such of his children and their issue, as shall live in or 

 within five miles of the said parish : and on failure of any 

 such, then under the direction of the vicar of Selbourn for 

 the time being ; but still to the uses above-named." 

 With this sum were purchased, of Thomas Turville, of 

 Hawkely, in the county of Southampton, yeoman, and 

 Hannah his wife, two closes of freehold land, commonly 

 called Collier's, containing, by estimation, eleven acres, 

 lying in Hawkeley aforesaid. These closes are let at this 

 time, 1785, on lease, at the rate of three pounds by the 

 year. 1 



This vicar also gave by will two hundred pounds towards 

 the repairs of the highways' 2 in the parish of Selborne. 

 That sum was carefully and judiciously laid out in the 

 summer of the year 1730, by his son John White, who 

 made a solid and firm causey from Rood Green, all down 

 Honey Lane, to a farm called Oak Woods, where the sandy 

 soil begins. This miry and gulfy lane was chosen as 

 worthy of repair, because it leads to the forest, and thence 

 through the Holt to the town of Farnham in Surrey, the 

 only market in those days for men who had wheat to sell in 

 this neighbourhood. This causey was so deeply bedded 

 with stone, so properly raised above the level of the soil, 

 and so well drained, that it has, in some degree, withstood 

 fifty-four years of neglect and abuse; and might, with 

 moderate attention, be rendered a solid and comfortable 

 road. The space from Rood Green to Oak Woods measures 

 about three quarters of a mile. 



In 1727, William Henry Cane, B.D., became vicar; and, 



1 The fac-simile of the author's autograph, subjoined to the original 

 advertisement prefixed to the present volume, is taken from his signature 

 to the lease here referred to. ED. 



2 " Such legacies were very common in former times, before any 

 effectual laws were made for the repairs of highways." Sir John 

 Cullum's " Hawsted," p. 15. G. W. 



