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the right ot Pillory^ Thurcet_, and Furcas, and every mano- 
rial privilege. 
I find next a grant from Jo. de Yenur, or Venuz to tlie 
prior of Selborne — "de tota mora [a moor or bog] ubi Bene 
oritur, usque ad campum vivarii, et de prato voc. Syden- 
meade cum abutt : et de cursu aque molendini.^' And also 
a grant in reversion unius virgate terre^^ [a yard land] in 
Achangre at the death of Richard Actedene his sister's 
husband, who had no child. He was to present a pair of 
gloves of one penny value to the prior and canons, to be 
given annually by the said Richard ; and to quit all claim 
to the said lands in reversion, provided the prior and canons 
would engage annually to pay to the king, through the 
hands of his bailiffs of Aulton, ten shillings at four quar- 
terly payments, **^pro omnibus serviciis, consuetudinibus, 
exactionibus, et demandis.'' 
This Jo. de Venur was a man of property at Oakhanger, 
and lived probably at the spot now called Chapel Farm. 
The grant bears date the seventeenth year of the reign of 
Henry III. [viz. 1233]. 
It would be tedious to enumerate every little grant for 
lands or tenements that might be produced from my 
vouchers. I shall, therefore, pass over all such for the 
present, and conclude this letter with a remark that must 
strike every thinking person with some degree of wonder. 
No sooner had a monastic institution got a footing, but the 
neighbourhood began to be touched with a secret and reli- 
gious awe. Every person round was desirous to promote 
so good a work ; and either by sale, by grant, or by gift in 
reversion, was ambitious of appearing a benefactor. They 
who had not lands to spare gave roads to accommodate the 
infant foundation. The religious were not backward in 
keeping up this pious propensity, which they observed so 
readily influenced the breasts of men. Thus did the more 
opulent monasteries add house to house, and field to field ; 
and, by degrees, manor to manor, till at last " there was no 
place left f but every district around became appropriated 
to the purposes of their founders, and every precinct wag 
drawn into the "vertex. 
