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

 vocat : Edriche croft, cum extensione ejusdein et abutta- 

 mentis; 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 at 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 com- 

 modious 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 ; intra 

 burgum, et extra burgum, cum soka et saca, Thol et Them, 

 Infangenethef et Utfangenethef, et hamsocne et blodwite, 

 et pecunia que dari solet pro murdro et forstal, et fleniene- 

 strick, 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 omnimo'la reparatione, et cum omnibus aliis 

 libertatibus." This grant was made out by Richard, Bishop 

 of Chichester, then chancellor, at the town of Northampton, 



