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ANTIQUITIES OE SELBOENE. 
to these lands by a road for carts and waggons. — '^Jacobus de Nortun 
concedit Petro Winton episcopo totum cursum aque que descendit de 
Molendino de Durton usq; ad boscum Will. Mauduit, et croftam terre 
vocat: Edriche croft, cum extensione ejusdem et abuttamentis ; ad 
fundandam domum religiosam de ordine Sti. Augustini. Concedit 
etiam viam ad carros, et caretas/' &c. This vale, down which runs the 
brook, is now called the Long Lithe, or Lythe. Bating the following 
particular expression, this grant runs much in the style of the former : 
" Dedit mihi episcopus predictus triginta quinque marcas argenti ad 
me acquietandwn versus Judceos;" that is, ^^the bishop advanced me 
thirty-five marks of silver to pay my debts to the Jews," who were then 
the only lenders of money. 
Finding himself still straitened for room, the founder applied to 
his royal master, Henry, who was graciously pleased to bestow certain 
lands in the manor of Selborne on the new priory of his favourite 
minister. These grounds had been the property of Stephen de Lucy ; 
and, abutting upon the narrow limits of the convent, became a very 
commodious and agreeable acquisition. This grant, I find, was made 
on March the 9th, in the eighteenth year of Henry, viz., 1234, being 
two years after the foundation of the monastery. The royal donor 
bestowed his favour with a good grace, by adding to it almost every 
immunity and privilege that could have been specified in the law- 
language of the times. — ^' Quare volumus prior, &c., habeant totam 
terram, &c., cum omnibus libertatibus in bosco ©t piano, in viis et 
semitis, pratis et pascuis ; aquis et piscariis ; infra burgum, et extra 
burgum, cum soka et saca, Thol et Them, Infangenethef et Utfangene- 
thef, et hamsocne et blodwite, et pecunia que dari solet 'pro murdro et 
forstal, et flemenestrick, et cum quietancia de omni scotto et geldo, 
et de omnibus auxiliis regum, vicecomitum, et omn: ministralium 
suorum ; et hidagio et exercitibus, et scutagiis, et tallagiis, et shiris et 
hundredis, et placitis et querelis, et warda et wardpeny, et opibus 
castellorum et pontium, et clausuris parcorum, et omni carcio et 
sumagio, et domor: regal: edificatione, et omnimoda reparatione, et 
cum omnibus aliis libertatibus." This grant was made out by 
Eichard bishop of Chichester, then chancellor, at the town of 
^Northampton, before the lord chief justiciary, who was the founder 
himself 
The charter of foundation of the Priory, dated 1233, comes next in 
order to be considered ; but being of some length, I shall not interrupt 
my narrative by placing it here. This my copy, taken from the original, 
I have compared with 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 cujuslibet alterius domUs religiosce 
subjectione libera permaneat, 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 
