Of SELBORNE. 
ifer^aid. Theffe cl6fes are let at this timi?, 1 7^ 5, '6h leaffe, at the 
tftte bf t'hree pounds by the year. 
This vicar alfo gave by will mo iMftdfed pounds tdWafds the 
t^pairs 6? the highwayis " m the parifti 6f Selhorue. That fam was 
carfsfully and judicioufly laid out m the fummer of the year 1730, 
'by his ibn fohn White, who fflude a folid and firm caufey from 
Hood-grieHj all down Hdnp-iane, to a farm called Oa'k-tvoods, Where 
the fandy foil begins. This miry and gulfy lane Was chofen as 
worthy of repair, becaufe it leads to the foreft, and thence through 
the Holt to the tovvn of farHham in Siimyy the only market in 
thofe days for men who had wheat to fell in this neighbourhood. 
This caufey Was fo deeply bedded with ftone, fo properly raifed 
above the level of the foil, and fo well drained, that it has, lix 
'{ome degree, withftood fifty-four years of negled ahd abufe ; and 
might, with moderate attention, be rendered a folid and ComfOrtablfe 
road. The fpace from Rood-green to Oak-woods meafures about 
three quarters of a mile. 
In 1727, fVilliam Henry Cane, B. D. became vicar; and, among 
feveral alterations and repairs, new-buik the back front of the 
vicarage-houfe. 
On February i, 1740, Duncombe Brijlowe, D. D. was inllituted to 
this living. What benefadtions this vicar beftowed on the parifh 
will be beft explained by the following paflages from his will 
Item, I hereby give and bequeath to the roinifter and church- 
" wardens of the parifli of Selbournj in the county of Southampton^ 
*' a mahogany table, which I have ordered to be made for the 
*' celebration of the Holy Communion; and aifo the fum of 
u Such legacies were very comimoa m former times, before any effeflual laws were 
" made for the repairs of highwayj," Sir John Cwltum's Hawfted. p. 1 5. 
U w 7- " thirty 
