OF SELBORNE. 433 



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 

 cujuslibet alterius domus religiosce subjections libera perma- 

 neat, et in omnibus absolute" 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 priories, suppressed 2 Henry V. viz. 

 1414, where may be seen as follows : 



S. 

 Sele, Sussex. 



SELEBUKN. 



Shirburn. 



This appeared to me from the first to have been an over- 

 sight, before I had seen my authentic evidences. For 

 priories alien, a few conventual ones excepted, were little 

 better than granges to foreign abbeys; and their priors 

 little more than bailiffs, removable at will: whereas the 

 priory of Selborne possessed the valuable estates and 

 manors of Selborne, Achangre, Norton, Brompden, Bas 

 singes, Basingstoke, and Natele ; and the prior challenged 



alterius domus religiose subjectione libera permaneat, et in omnibus 

 absoluta ; salva in omnibus episcopali auctoritate, et Winton ecclesie 

 dignitate. Quod ut in posterum ratum permaneat et inconcussum, 

 present! scripto et sigilli nostri patrocinis duximus confirmandum. His 

 testibus domino Waltero abbate de Hyda. Domino Walters Priore de 

 sancto Swithuno, domino Stephano priore de Motesfonte, magistro Alano 

 de Stoke ; magistro Willo de sancte Marie ecclesia, tune officiali nostro ; 

 Luca archidiacon' de SUIT', magistro Humfrido de Millers , Henrico & 

 Hugone capellanis, Roberto de Clinchamp, et Petro Rossinol clericis, et 

 multis aliis. Datum apud Wines* per manum P. de cancellis. In die 

 sanctorum martirum Fabiani et Sebastiani. Anno Domi milesimo 

 ducentesimo tricesimo tercio. . 



Seal, two saints and a bishop praying : 

 Legend : SVL M. SITG. BONI. P6TK' PAVL' 6 PATRONI. 



* Probably Wolvesey-house near Winchester. G. W. 

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