OF SJSLBOBNE, 
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of an oath and the renunciation of all rights and claims, and 
under penalties, if the right was not made good. But it 
will be best to give an abstract from the bull. 
N". 298. Pope Martin's bull, touching the revoking of 
certain things alienated from the Priory of Seleburne. Pon- 
tif. sui ann. 1. 
''Martinus Eps. servus servorum Dei. Dilecto filio 
Priori de Suthvale ^ Wyntonien. dioc. Salutem & apos- 
tolicam ben. Ad audientiam nostram pervenit quam tarn 
dilecti filii prior et conventus monasterii de Seleburn per 
Priorem soliti gubernari ordinis Augustini Winton. 
dioc. quam de predecessores eorum decimas, terras, redditus, 
domos, possessiones, vineas^ et quedam alia bona ad monas- 
terium ipsum spectantia, datis super hoc litteris, inter- 
positis juramentis, factis renuntiationibus, et penis adjectis, 
in gravem ipsius monasterii lesionem, nonnuUis clericis et 
laicis, aliquibus eorum ad vitam, quibusdam vero ad non 
modicum tempas, & aliis perpetuo ad firmam, vel sub censu 
annuo concesserunt ; quorum aliqui dicunt super hiis a sede 
aplica in communi forma confirmationis litteras impetrasse. 
Quia vero nostri interest lesis monasteriis sub venire — [He 
the Pope here commands] — ea ad jus et proprietatem mo- 
nasterii studeas legitime revocare,'' &c. 
The conduct of the religious had now for some time been 
generally bad. Many of the monastic societies, being very 
opulent, were become voluptuous and licentious, and had 
deviated entirely from their original institutions. The 
laity saw with indignation the wealth and possessions of 
their pious ancestors perverted to the service of sensuality 
^ Should have been no doubt Southwick, a priory under Portsdowi*. 
—a w. 
^ Mr. Barrington is of opinion that anciently the Eno;]ish vineii was 
in almost every instance an orchard ; not perliaps always of apples 
merely, but of other fruits ; as cherries, plums, and currants. We still 
say a plum or cherry-orchard. — See Vol. III. of Archteologia. 
In the instance above the pope's secretary mioht insert vineas merely 
because they were a species of cultivation familiar to him in Italy. — 
G. W. 
OrcTiard, says Mr. Bennett, is, properly speaking, merely a garden : 
q. d. wurt-yard. — Ed. 
