ANTiaUITIES OF SELBORNE. 
Selborne pro termino 40 annorum, si tarn diu vixerit. Ubi 
dictus mag^ Nicholaus celebrabit pro animabus omnium bene- 
factorum dicti prioratus et coll. nostri, et omnium fidelium 
defunctorum. Insuper nos, &c. concedimus eidem ibidem cele- 
branti in sustentationem suam quandam annualem pensionem 
sive annuitatem octo librarum &c. — in dicta capella dicti prioratus 
— concedimus duas cameras contiguas ex parte boreali dicte 
capelie, cum una coquina, et cum uno stabulo conveniente pro 
tribus equis, cum pomerio eidem adjacente voc. le Orcheyard — 
Preterea 26s. 8d. per ann. ad inveniendum unum clericum ad 
serviendum sibi ad altare, et aliis negotiis necessariis ejus.^' — His 
wood to be granted him by the president on the progress. — He 
was not to absent himself beyond a certain time ; and was to 
superintend the coppices, wood, and hedges. — "Dat. 5***. die 
Julii. an^ Hen. VHI". 36\" [viz. 1546.] 
Here we see the Priory in a new light, reduced as it were to 
the state of a chantry, without prior and without canons, and 
attended only by a priest, who was also a sort of bailiff or wood- 
man, his assistant clerk, and his female cook. Owen Oglethorpe, 
president, and Magd. Coll. in the fourth year of Edward VI. 
viz. 1551, granted an annuity of ten pounds a year for life to 
Nich. Langrish, who, from the preamble, appears then to have 
been fellow of that society ; but, being now superannuated for 
business, this pension is granted him for thirty years, if he should 
live so long. It is said of him — " cum jam sit provectioris etatis 
quam ut," &c. 
Laurence Stubby president of Magd. Coll. leased out the Priory 
lands to John Sharp, husbandman, for the term of twenty years, 
as early as the seventeenth year of Henry VIII. — viz. 1526 : and 
it appears that Henry Newlyn had been in possession of a lease 
before, probably towards the end of the reign of Henry VII. 
Sharp's rent was vi". per ann. — Regist. B. p. 43. 
By an abstract from a lease lying before me, it appears that 
Sharp found a house, two barns, a stable, and a duf-house, [dove- 
house] built, and standing on the south side of the old Priory, 
and late in the occupation of Newlyn. In this abstract also are 
to be seen the names of all the fields, many of which continue 
the same to this day.* Of some of them I shaU take notice, 
where any thing singular occurs. 
* It may not be amiss to mention here that various names of tithings, farms, fields, woods, &c. 
which appear in the ancient deeds, and evidences of several centuries standing, are still preserved 
in common use with little or no variation: — as Norton, Southiugton, Durton, Achangre, Black- 
