430 ANTIQUITIES 



The first person with whom the founder treated about the 

 purchase of land was Jacobus de Achangre, or Ochangre, a 

 gentleman of property who resided at that hamlet ; and, as 

 appears, at the house now called Oakhanger House. With 

 him he agreed for a croft, or little close of land, known by 

 the name of La Liega, or La Lyge, which was to be the 

 immediate site of the Priory. 



De Achangre also accommodated the bishop at the same 

 instant with three more adjoining crofts, which for a time 

 was all the footing that this institution obtained in the 

 parish. The seller in the conveyance says, ' ' Warantizabi- 

 mus, defendemus, et acquietabimus contra omnes gentes ;" 

 viz. " We will warrant the thing sold against all claims 

 from any quarter." In modern conveyancing this would 

 be termed a covenant for further assurance. Afterwards is 

 added "Pro hac autem donacione, &c. dedit mihi pred. 

 Episcopus sexdecem marcas argenti in Gersumam:" i.e. 

 " the bishop gave me sixteen silver marks as a consideration 

 for the thing purchased/' 



As the grant from Jac. de Achangre was without date, 1 

 and the next is circumstanced in the same manner, we 

 cannot say exactly what interval there was between the two 

 purchases ; but we find that Jacobus de Nortun, a neigh- 

 bouring gentleman, also soon sold to the Bishop of Win- 

 chester some adjoining grounds, through which our stream 

 passes, that the priory might be accommodated with a mill, 

 which was a common necessary appendage to every manor : 

 he also allowed access to these lands by a road for carts and 

 waggons. " Jacobus de Nortun concedit Petro Winton 

 episcopo totum cursum aque que descendit de Molendino 



till after the conquest ; and seem not to have obtained the appellation 

 of Augustine Canons till some years after. Their habit was a long 

 black cassock, with a white rocket over it ; and over that a black cloak 

 and hood. The monks were always shaved : but these canons wore 

 their hair and beards, and caps on their heads. There were of these 

 canons, and women of the same order called Canonesses, about one 

 hundred and seventy-five houses. G. W. 



1 The custom of affixing dates to deeds was not become general in 

 the reign of Henry III. G. W. 



