336 ANTiaUITIES Of SELBORNE. 
The idea of R. C. that the yew-tree afforded its branches in- 
stead of palms for the processions on Pahn-sunday, is a good 
one, and deserves attention. See Gent. Mag. Vol. L. p. 128. 
LETTER VI. 
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, to- 
gether, 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 01624 
Yearly procurations for Blackmore and Oak- I ^ ^ h 
hanger Chap : with acquit : ^01/ 
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 Ehzabeth ; from which 
period the registers furnish a regular series. 
In Domesday we find thus — De isto manerio dono dedit Rex 
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. 
* At Bene's, or Bin's, parsonage there is a house ami stout barn, and seven acres of glebe. 
Bene's parsonage is three miles from the church. 
