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w'tli 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 domus religiosce suhjedione libera perma- 
neat, et in omnibus absoluta'' — to show how much Dugdale 
was mistaken when he inserted Selborne among the alien 
priories; forgetting that this disposition 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 Y. viz. 
1414, where may be seen as follows : — 
S. 
8cle, Sussex. 
SELEBURN. 
Shirhurn. 
This appeared to me from the first to have been an over- 
sight, 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, Bas- 
singes, Basingstoke, and Natele ; and the prior challenged 
alterius domus religiose subjectione hbera permaneat, et in oranihns 
absoluta ; salva in omnibus episcopah auctoritate, et Wmfon ecclesie 
dignitate. Quod ut in posterum ratum permaneat et inconcussum, 
present! scripto et sigilli nostri patroeinis duximus confirmandum. His 
testibus dom'lno vVaUero abbate de Hycla. Domino Walters Priore do 
sancto Swithuno,d.ova.\x\o Stephano priore de Motesfonte, magistro Alano 
de StoJie ; magistro Willo de sancte Marie ecclesia, tunc officiali nostro; 
Luca archidiacon' de surr'. magistro Humfrido de Millers^ Henrico 
Hugone capellanis, Roberto de Clinchamp, et Petro Rossinol clericis, cfe 
multis aliis. Datum apud Wines* per manum P, de cancellis. In die 
sanctorum martirum Fahiani et Sehastiani. Anno Domi miiesitno 
ducentesimo tricesimo tercio. 
Seal, two saints and a bishop praying : 
Legend: SYI. M. SITG. BONI. PGTR' PAVL' 6 PATRO^^I. 
* Probably Wolvesey-house near Winchester.— G. W. 
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