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ployed in teaching tlie poor children of Selbourne parish to 
read and write, and say their prayers and catechism, and to 
sew and knit : — and be under the direction of his executrix 
as long as she lives ; and, after her, under the direction of 
such of his children and 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 
the time being ; but still to the uses above-named." 
With this sum were purchased, of Thomas Turville, of 
Hawkely, in the county of Southampton, yeoman, and 
Hannah his wife, two closes of freehold 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 Rood 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, withstood 
fifty-four years of neglect and abuse ; and might, with 
moderate attention, be rendered a solid and comfortable 
road. The space from Rood Green to Oak Woods measures 
about three quarters of a mile. 
In 1727, William Henry Cane, B.D., became vicar; and, 
^ The fac-simile of the author's autograph, subjoined to the original 
advertisement prefixed to the present volume, is taken from his signature 
to the lease here referred to. — Ed. 
2 " Such legacies were very common in former times, before any 
effectual laws were made for the repairs of highways." — Sir John 
CuUum's " Hawsted," p. 15.— G. W. 
