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et forstal, et flemenestrick, et cum quietancia de omni 

 scotto et geldo, et de omnibus auxiliis regum, vice comitum, 

 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 omnimoda reparatione, 

 et cum omnibus aliis libertatibus." This grant was made 

 out by Richard bishop of Chichester, then chancellor, at 

 the town of Northampton, before the lord chief justiciary, 

 who was the founder himself. 



The charter of foundation of the Priory, dated 1233, 

 comes next in order to be considered ; but being of some 

 length, I shall not interrupt my narrative by placing it 

 here; and therefore refer the reader to the appendix, 

 No. I. This my copy, taken from the original, I have 

 compared 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 religiosae subjectlone 

 libera permaneat, et in omnibus absoluta" — 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 he had published. 

 In the Monasticon Anglkanum in English, p. 119, is part 

 of his catalogue of alien priories, suppressed 2 Henry V., 

 viz. 14 14, where may be seen as follows: 



S. 



Sele, Sussex. 



SELEBURN. 



Shirburn. 



This appeared to me from the first to have been an 

 oversight, before I had seen my authentic evidences. For 

 priories alien, a i^^^ 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 



