ANTIQUITIES OF SELBOENE. 
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The idea of R. C. that the yew-tree afforded its branches instead of 
palms for the processions on Palm Sunday, is a good one, and deserves, 
attention. See " Gent. Mag." vol. 1. p. 128. 
LETTEE VL 
The living of Selborne was a very small vicarage ; but, being in the 
patronage of Magdalen College, in the university of Oxford, that 
society endowed it with the great tithes of Selborne, more than a 
century ago ; and since the year 1758 again with the great tithes of 
Oakhanger, called Bene's parsonage ; so that, together, it is become a 
respectable piece of preferment, to which one of the fellows is always 
presented. The vicar holds the great tithes, by lease, under the college. 
The great disadvantage of this living is, that it has not one foot of 
glebe near home.* 
ITS PAYMENTS ARE— &. S. d. 
King's books 821 
Yearly tenths 0 16 2^ 
Yearly procurations for Blackmore and Oakhanger | q 1 7 
Chap, with acquit ) 
Selborne procurations and acquit. . . . . 0 9 0 
I am unable to give a complete list of the vicars of this parish till 
towards the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; from which period 
the registers furnish a regular series. 
In Domesday we find thus — " De isto manerio dono dedit Eex 
Radfredo presbytero dimidiam hidam cum ecclesia." So that before 
Domesday, which was compiled between the years 1081 and 1086, here 
was an officiating minister at this place. 
After this, among my documents, I find occasional mention of a 
vicar here and there ; the first is — 
Roger, instituted in 1254. 
In 1410 John Lynne was vicar of Selborne. 
In 1411 Hugo Tybbe was vicar. 
The presentations to the vicarage of Selborne generally ran in the 
name of the prior and the convent ; but Tybbe was presented by Prior 
John Wynechestre only. 
. June 29, 1528, William Fisher, vicar of Selborne, resigned to Miles 
Peyrson. 
1594, William White appears to have been vicar to this time. Of this 
person there is nothing remarkable, but that he hath made a regular 
entry twice in the register of Selborne of the funeral of Thomas Cowper, 
bishop of Winchester, as if he had been buried at Selborne ; yet this 
learned prelate, who died 1594, was buried at Winchester, in the 
cathedral, near the episcopal throne.f 
1595, Richard Boughton, vicar. 
* At Bene's, or Bin's, parsonage there is a house and stout bam, and seven 
acres of glebe ; Bene's parsonage is three miles from the church, 
t See " Godwin de Prsesulibus, " Folio Cant. 1743, p. 239. 
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