VI.] OF SELBORNE. 481 
LETTEE VI. 
The living of Selborne was a very small vicarage ; but, being in 
the patronage of Magdalen College, in the University of Oxford, 
that society endowed it w^ith the great tithes of Selborne, 
more than a century ago : and since the year 1758 again with 
the great tithes of Oakh anger, called Bene's Parsonage : so that, 
together, it is become a respectable piece of preferment, to 
which one of the fellows is always presented. The vicar holds 
the great tithes, by lease, under the college. The great dis- 
advantage of this living is, that it has not one foot of glebe 
near home.^ 
ITS PAYMENTS ARE, 
King's books ........821 
Yearly tenths 0 16 2^ 
Yearly procurations for Blackmore and Oakhanger 
Chap : with acquit : 017 
Selborne procurations and acquit : 0 9 0 
I am unable a give a complete list of the vicars of this parish 
till towards the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; from 
which period the registers furnish a regular series. 
In Domesday we find tlius — " De isto manerio dono dedit 
Eex Eadfredo presbytero dimidiam hidam cum ecclesia." So 
that before Domesday, which w^as compiled between the years 
1081 and 1086, there was an officiating minister at this place. 
After this, among my documents, I find occasional mention 
of a vicar here and there : the first is 
Eoger, instituted in 1254. 
In 1410 John Lynne was vicar of Selborne. 
In 1411 Hugo Tybbe was vicar. 
The presentations to the vicarage of Selborne generally ran 
in the name of the prior and the convent ; but Tybbe was pre- 
sented by prior J ohn Wynechestre only. 
^ At Bene's, or Bin's, parsonage there is a house and stout barn, and seven 
acres of glebe. Bene's parsonage is three miles from the church. 
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