Vll.] 
OF SELBORNE. 
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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 Eichard, Bishop of Chichester, then Chancellor, at 
the town of iN'orthampton, 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, 1 
shall not interrupt my narrative by placing it here. 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 cujuslihet alterius domits 
religiosce suhjectione libera pernianeat, et in omnibus ahsoluta " — 
to show how much Dugdale was mistaken when he inserted 
Selborne among tlie alien priories ; forgetting that this dis- 
position 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. 
SELEBURN. 
SJm'htrn, 
This appeared to me from the first to have been an oversight, 
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, Bassinges, Basingstoke, and Natele ; and the prior 
challenged the right of Pillory, Thurcet, and Furcas, and every 
manorial privilege. 
I find next a grant from Jo. de Yenur, or A^enuz, to the prior 
of Selborne — " de tola mora [a moor or bog] ubi Beme oritur 
