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ANTIQUITIES 
Et liceat eidem priori et ballis suis ponere se in seisinam in 
hujusmodi catall. incasibus pdcis sine disturbacone ballivor. 
dni reg. quorumcunque. 
" Item clam, quod licet aliqua libtatum p dnm regem con- 
cessar. pcessu temporis quocunq ; casu contingente usi non 
fuerint, nlominus postea eadm libtate uti possit. Et pdcus 
prior queaitus p justic. quo warranto clamat omn. terr. et 
ten. sua in Seleburne, Norton, Basynges, Basyngestoke, & 
Nattele^ que prior domus pdte huit & tenuit X™^ die April 
anno regni dni Hen. reg. pavi dni reg. nue XVIII. immppm 
esse quieta de vasto et regardo, et visu forestarior. et viri- 
darior. regardator. et omnium minisfcrorum foreste/^ &c. &c. 
— Chapter House, Westminster. 
LETTER XXVL 
HOUGH the evidences and documents of the 
Priory and parish of Selborne are now at an 
end, yet, as the author has still several things 
to say respecting the present state of that 
convent and its Grange, and other matters, 
he does not see how he can acquit himself of the subject 
without trespassing again on the patience of the reader by 
adding one supplementary letter. 
No sooner did the Priory (perhaps much out of repair at 
the time) become an appendage to the college, but it must 
at once have tended to swift decay. Magdalen College 
wanted now only two chambers for the chantry priest and 
his assistant ; and therefore had no occasion for the hall, 
dormitory, and other spacious apartments belonging to so 
liirge a foundation. The roofs, neglected, would soon 
become the possession of daws and owls; and, being rotted 
and decayed by the weather, would fall in upon the floors ; 
so that all parts must have hastened to speedy dilapidation 
and a scene of broken ruins. Three full centuries have 
