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June 168 1. This living was now in fuch low eftimatlon in 
Magdalen-colkge that it defcended to a junior fellow, Gilbert White, 
M. A. who was inftituted to it in the thirty-firft j^ear of his age. 
At his firft coming he ceiled the chancel^ and alfo floored and 
wainfcoted the parlour and hall, which before were paved with 
ftone, and had naked walls ; he enlarged the kitchen and brewhoufej, 
and dug a cellar and well : he alfo built- a large new barn in the 
lower yard, removed the hovels in the front court, which he laid 
out in walks and borders ; and entii-ely planned the back garden,, 
before a rude field with a (lone-pit in the midft of it. By his will 
he gave and bequeathed " the fum of forty pounds to be lai4 
out in the moft neceflTary repairs of the church ; that is, in 
" ftrengthcning and fecuring fuch parts as feem decaying and 
" dangerous." With this fum two large buttrelTes were ereded 
to fupport the eaft end of the fouth wall of the church ; and the 
gable-end wall of the weft end of the fouth aile was new built 
from the ground. 
By his will alfo he gave " One hundred pounds to be laid 
" out on lands ; the yearly rents whereof fhall be employed in 
" teaching the poor children of Se]bourn ^^2,'nSs^. to read and write, 
" and fay their prayers and catechifm, and to few and knit : — 
and be under the direftion of his executrix as long as fhe 
" lives; and, after her, under the direition of fuch of his 
children and their iffue, as fhall live in or within five miles 
of the faid parifh : and on failure of any fuch, then under the 
direftion of the vicar o{ ^elhoum iox, the time being; but ftill 
to the ufes above-named." With this fum was purchafed, of 
Thomas 'Turville, of Hawkeky, in the coynty of Southampton, yeoman, 
and Hannah his wife, two clofes of freehold land, commonly called 
Collier's J containing, by eftimation, (kven acres, lying in Hawkelgy 
aforefaid. 
