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THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
their issue, as shall live in or within five miles of the said 
parish : and on failure of any such, then under the direction of 
the vicar of Selbourn for tlie time being ; but still to the uses 
above-named." AVifcli this sum was purcliased, of Thomas 
Turville, of Hawkeley, in the county of Southampton, yeoman, 
and Hannali bis wife, two closes of freebold land, commonly 
called Collier's, containing, by estimation, eleven acres, lying in 
Hawkeley aforesaid. These closes are let at this time, 1785, on 
lease, at the rate of three pounds by the year. 
This vicar also gave by will two hundred pounds towards 
the repairs of the highways ^ in the parish of Selborne. That 
sum was carefully and judiciously laid out in the summer of 
the year 1730, by his son John White, who made a solid and 
firm causey from Eood Green all down Honey Lane, to a farm 
called Oak Woods, where the sandy soil begins. This miry 
and gulfy lane was chosen as worthy of repair, because it leads 
to the forest, and thence through the Holt to the town of 
Farnham in Surrey, the only market in those days for men who 
had wheat to sell in this neighbourhood. This causey was so 
deeply bedded with stone, so properly raised above the level of 
the soil, and so well drained, that it has, in some degree, with- 
stood fifty-four years of neglect and abuse ; and might, with 
moderate attention, be rendered a solid and comfortable road. 
The space from Eood Green to Oak Woods measures about 
three quarters of a mile. 
In 1727 William Henry Cane, B.D., became vicar; and, 
among several alterations and repairs, new built the back front 
of the vicarage house. 
On February 1, 1740, Buncombe Bristowe, D.D., was instituted 
to this living. What benefactions this vicar bestowed on the 
parish will be best explained by the following passages from 
his will : — " Item, I hereby give and bequeath to the minister 
and churchwardens of the parish of Selbourn, in the connty of 
Southampton, a mahogany table, which I have ordered to be 
made for the celebration of the Holy Communion ; and also the 
1 " Such legacies were very common m former times, before any effectual 
laws were made for the repairs of highways." — Sir J ohn Cullum's JJawsted, 
p. 15. 
