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estimation, eleven acres, lying in Hawkeley aforesaid. These 
closes are let at this time, 1785, on lease, at the rate of three 
pounds by the year. 
This vicar also gave by will two hundred pounds towards the 
repairs of the highways* in the parish of Selborne. That sum 
was carefully and judiciously laid out in the summer of the year 
1730, by his son John White, who made a solid and firm causey 
from Rood Green, all down Honey Lane, to a farm called Oak- 
woods, where the sandy soil begins. This miry and gulfy lane 
was chosen as worthy of repair, because it leads to the forest, 
and thence through the Holt to the town of Farnham in Surrey, 
the only market in those days for men who had wheat to sell in 
this neighbourhood. This causey was so deeply bedded with 
stone, so properly raised above the level of the soil, and so well 
drained, that it has, in some degree, withstood fifty-four years of 
neglect and abuse ; and might, with moderate attention, be ren- 
dered a solid and comfortable road. The space from Rood Green 
to Oakwoods measures about three quarters of a mile. 
In 1727, William Henry Cane, B. D. became vicar ; and among 
several alterations and repairs, new-built the back front of the 
vicarage-house. 
On February 1, 1740, Buncombe Bristowe, D. D. was in- 
stituted to this living. What benefactions this vicar bestowed on 
the parish will be best explained by the following passages from 
his will : — " Item, I hereby give and bequeath to the minister 
and churchwardens of the parish of Selborne in the county of 
Southampton, a mahogany table, which I have ordered to be 
made for the celebration of the Holy Communion ; and also the 
sum of thirty pounds, in trust, to be applied in manner follow- 
ing : that is, ten pounds towards the charge of erecting a gallery 
at the west end of the church ; and ten pounds to be laid out for 
clothing, and such like necessaries, among the poor (and espe- 
cially among the ancient and infirm) of the said parish : and the 
remaining ten pounds to be distributed in bread, at twenty shiL 
lings a week, at the discretion of John White, Esq., or any of 
his family, who shall be resident in the said parish." 
On November 12, 1758, Andrew Etty, B. D. became vicar. 
Among many useful repairs he new-roofed the body of the vicar- 
age-house ; and wainscoted, up to the bottom of the windows, 
* '» Such legacies were very common in former times, before any etfectual laws were made lor 
the repairs of highways."— Sir John CuUum's Hawsted, p. 15. 
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