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ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
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 religiosae subjectione libera per- 
maneat, et in omnibus absoluta " — to show how much Dugdale 
was mistaken when he inserted Selborne among the alien pri- 
ories ; forgetting that this disposition of the cofivent contradicted 
the grant that he had pubUshed. In the Monasticon AngH- 
canum, in English, p. 119, is part of his catalogue of alien 
priories, suppressed 2 Henry V. viz, 1414, where may be seen 
as follows, 
S. Sele, Sussex. Seleburn. Shirbum. 
This appeared to me from the first to have been an oversight, 
before I had seen my authentic evidences. For priories alien, a 
few conventual ones excepted, were little better than granges to 
foreign abbeys ; and their priors little more than bailiffs, remove- 
able at will : whereas the priory of Selborne possessed the val- 
uable estates and manors of Selborne, Achangre, Norton, 
Brompden, Bassinges, Basingstoke, and Natele ; and the prior 
challenged the right of pillory, thurcet, and furcas, and every 
manorial privilege. 
I find next a grant from Jo. de Venur, or Venuz, to the prior 
of Selborne — " de tota mora [a moor or bog] ubi Berne oritur, 
usque ad campum vivarii, et de prato voc. Sydenmeade cum 
abutt : et de cursu aque molendini." And also a grant in rever- 
sion " unius virgate terre," [a yard land] in Achangre at the 
death of Richard Actedene his sister's husband, who had no 
child. He was to present a pair of gloves of one penny value to 
the prior and canons, to be given annually by the said Richard ; 
and to quit all cjaim to the said lands in reversion, provided the 
prior and canons would engage annually to pay to the king, 
through the hands of his bailiffs of Aulton, ten shillings at four 
quarterly payments, pro omnibus serviciis, 'consuetudinibus, 
exactionibus, et demandis.'' 
Stoke ; magistro WiUo de sancte Marie ecelesia, tunc officiali nostro ; Luca archidiacon' de surr.^ 
magistro Hiiinfrido de Millers, Henrico & Hugone capellanis, Roberto de Clinchamp, et Petro 
Rossinol clericis, et multis aliis. Datum apud Wines* per manum P. de cancellis. In die sanc- 
torum niartirum Fabiani et Sebastiani. Anno Domi miliesiuio ducentesimo tricesimo tercio. 
Seal, two saints and a bishop praying : 
Legend: SvT. M. SITG. BONI. PGTR' PAVL' 6 PATRONI. 
* Probably Wolvesey-house, near Winchester. 
