OF SELBORNE, 
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LETTER VI. 
The living of Selborne was a very fmall vicarage; but, being in 
the patronage of Magdalen-college, in the univerfity of Oxford, that 
fociety endowed it with the great tithes of Selborne, more than a 
century ago : and fince the year 1758 again with the great tithes 
of Oakhanger, called Bcne's parfonage : fo that, together, it is be- 
come a refpeftable piece of preferment, to which one of the 
fellows is always prefented. The vicar holds the great tithes, 
by leafe, under the college. The great difad vantage of this living 
isj that it has not one foot of glebe near home ^ 
ITS PAYMENTS ARE, £. S. d. 
King's books — — — —821 
Yearly tenths — — ■ — ■ — -0x62^ 
Yearly procurations for Blackmore and Oakhanger 1 o i 
Chap: with acquit: — - — J ^ 
Selborne procurations and acquit: — — ' o 9 o 
I am unable to give a complete lif!: of the vicars of this parifli 
till towards the end of the reign of queen Elizabeth ; from which 
period the regifters furnifh a regular feries. 
In Domefday we find thus — " De ifto manerio dono dedit Rex 
*' Radfredo prefbytero dimidiam hidam cum ecclefia." So that 
before Domefday, which was compiled between the years loSi and 
1086, here was an officiating minlfter at this place. 
» At Benes, or Bins, parfonage there is a houfe and llout barn, and feven acres of 
glebs : Bcnis parfonage is thre; miles fromthe ch-arclx-. 
After 
