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ANTIQUITIES 
The first person with whom the founder treated about the 
purchase of land was Jacobus de Achangre, or Ochangre, a 
gentleman of property who resided at that hamlet ; and, as 
appears, at the house now called Oakhanger House. With 
him he agreed for a croft, or little close of land, known by 
the name of La Liega, or La Lyge, which was to be the 
immediate site of the Priory. 
De Achangre also accommodated the bishop at the same 
instant with three more adjoining crofts, which for a time 
was all the footing that this institution obtained in the 
parish. The seller in the conveyance says, Warantizabi- 
mus, defendemus, et acquietabimus contra omnes gentes 
viz. We will warrant the thing sold against all claims 
from any quarter/' In modern conveyancing this would 
be termed a covenpint for further assurance. Afterwards is 
added — "Pro hac autem donacione, &c. dedit mihi pred. 
Episcopus sexdecem marcas argenti in Gersumam:" i.e. 
" the bishop gave me sixteen silver marks as a consideration 
for the thing purchased.'^ 
As the grant from Jac. de Achangre was without date,^ 
and the next is circumstanced in the same manner, we 
cannot say exactly what interval there was between the two 
purchases ; but we find that Jacobus de Nortun, a neigh- 
bouring gentleman, also soon sold to the Bishop of Win- 
chester some adjoining grounds, through which our stream 
passes, that the priory might be accommodated with a mill, 
which was a common necessary appendage to every manor ; 
he also allowed access to these lands by a road for carts and 
waggons. — " Jacobus de Nortun concedit Petro Winton 
episcopo totum cursum aque que descendit de Molendino 
till after the conquest ; and seem not to have obtained the appellation 
of Augustine Canons till some years after. Their habit was a long 
black cassock, with a white rocket over it ; and over that a black cloak 
and hood. The monks were always shaved : but these canons wore 
their hair and beards, and caps on their heads. There were of these 
canons, and women of the sari*e order called Canonesses, about one 
hundred and seventy -five houses. — G. W. 
^ The custom of affixing dates to deeds was not become general in 
the reign of Henry III. — G. W. 
