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de Durton, usq ; ad boscum Will. Mauduit_, et croftam terre 
vocat : Edriche croft, cum extensione ejusdem et abutta- 
mentis; ad fundandam domum religiosam de ordine Sti. 
Augustini. Concedit etiam viam ad carros, et caretas/^ &c. 
This vale_, down which runs the brook, is now called the 
Long Lithe, or Lythe. Bating the following particular 
expression, this grant runs much in the style of the former ; 
Dedit mihi episcopus predictus triginta quinque marcas 
argenti ad me acquietandum versus Judceos." — That is, 
the bishop advanced me thirty-five marks of silver to pay 
my debts to the Jews,^^ who were then the only lenders 
of money. 
Finding himself still straitened for room, the founder 
applied to his royal master, Henry, who was graciously 
pleased to bestow certain lands in the manor at Selborne 
on the new priory of his favourite minister. These grounds 
had been the property of Stephen de Lucy ; and, abutting 
upon the narrow limits of the convent, became a very com- 
modious and agreeable acquisition. This grant, I find, was 
made on March the 9th, in the eighteenth year of Henry, 
viz., 1234, being two years after the foundation of the 
monastery. The roy^al donor bestowed his favour with a 
good grace, by adding to it almost every immunity and 
privilege that could have been specified in the law language 
of the times. — Quare volumus prior, &c., habeant totam 
terram, &c., cum omnibus libertatibus in bosco et piano, in 
viis et semitis, pratis et pascuis ; aquis et piscariis ; intra 
burgum, et extra burgum, cum soka et saca, Thol et Them, 
Infangenethef et Utfangenethef, et hamsocne et blodwite, 
et pecunia que dari solet pro murdro et forstal, et flemene- 
strick, et cum quietancia de omni scotto et geldo, et de 
omnibus auxiliis regum, vicecomitum, et omn : ministralium 
suorum ; et hidagio et exercitibus, et scutagiis, et tallagiis, 
et shiris et hundredis, et placitis et querelis, et warda et 
wardpeny, et 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 Richard, Bishop 
of Chichester, then chancellor, at the town of jN'orthampton, 
