VII.] 
OF SELBORNE. 
sum of thirty pounds, in trust, to be applied in manner follow- 
ing ; tliat is, ten pounds towards the charge of erecting a 
gallery at the west end of the church; and ten pounds to be 
laid out for clothing, and such like necessaries, among the 
poor (and especially among the ancient and infirm) of the said 
parish ; and the remaining ten pounds to be distributed in 
bread, at twenty shillings a week, at the discretion of John 
White, Esq., or any of his family who shall be resident in the 
said parish." 
On November 12, 1758, Andrew Etty, B.D., became vicar. 
Among many useful repairs he new roofed the body of the 
vicarage house ; and wainscoted up to the bottom of the 
windows, the whole of the chancel; to the neatness and 
decency of which he always paid the most exact attention. 
On September 25, 1784, Cliristopher Taylor, B.D., was 
inducted into the vicarage of Selborne. 
LETTER YIT. 
I SHALL now proceed to the Priory, which is undoubtedly the 
m.ost interesting part of our history. 
The Priory of Selborne was founded by Peter de la Pioche, 
or de Eupibus,^ one of those accomplished foreigners that 
resorted to the court of King John, where they were usually 
caressed, and met with a more favourable reception than ought, 
in prudence, to have been shown by any monarch to strangers. 
This adventurer was a Poictevin by birth, had been bred 
to arms in his youth, and distinguished by knighthood. 
Historians all agree not to speak very favourably of this 
remarkable man ; they allow that he was possessed of courage 
and fine abilities, but then they charge him with arbitrary 
principles, and violent conduct. By his insinuating manners 
he soon rose high in the favour of John; and in 1205, early 
in the reign of that prince, was appointed Bishop of Win- 
chester. In 1214 he became Lord Chief Justiciary of England, 
the first magistrate in the state, and a kind of viceroy, on 
^ See Godwin, "De Prcesulibiis Anglia," folio, London, 17i3, p. 217. 
