A N T I QJJ I T I E S 
As the grant from Jcjc. de Acbangre was without date and th« 
next is circumftanced in the fame manner, we cannot fay exaftly 
what interval there was between the two purchafes ; but we find that 
Jacobus de Nortun, a neighbouring gentleman, alfo foon fold to the 
bifhop of IVincheJler fome adjoining grounds, through which our 
ftream paffes, that the priory might be accommodated with a 
mill, which was a common neceffary appendage to every manor : 
he alfo allowed accefs to thefe lands by a road for carts and wag- 
gons. — Jacobus de Noriun concedit Petro fVinton epifcopo totum 
*^ curfum aqne que defcendit de Molendino de Durton ufq; ad 
" bofcnm PPltt. Mauduit, et croftam terre vocat : Edriche crofts 
cum extenfione ejufdem et abuttamentis ; ad fundandam domum 
" religiofam de ordine Sti. Augujlini. Concedit etiam viam ad 
" carros, et caretas," Sec. This vale, down which runs the 
brook, is now called the Long Lithe, or Lythe^ Bating the follow- 
ing particular expreflion, this grant runs much in the (lyle of the 
former ; Dedit mihi epifcopus prediftus triginta quinque 
'■^ marcas argenti ad me acquietandum verfus Judaos." — that is, *' the 
bifliop advanced me thirty-five marks of filver to pay my debts 
to the jews, who were then the only lenders of money." 
Finding himfelf ftill ftreightened for room, the founder applied 
to his royal mafter, Henry, who was gracioufly pleafed to beftow 
certain lands in the manor at Selborne on the new priory of his 
favourite minifter. Thefe grounds had been the property of 
Stephen de Lvxy, and, abutting upon the narrow limits of the con- 
vent, became a very commodious and agreeable acquifition. This 
grant, I find, was made on March the 9rh, in the eighteenth year 
oi Henry, ^7z. 1234, being two years after the foundation of the 
21 The cuftom of affixing dates to deeds was not become general in the tt\gnoiHe»ry lit. 
mopaftery. 
