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As foon as the prior became poffeffed of this piece of ground, he 
procured a charter for a market" from king Henry III. and began to 
erefl houfes and ftalls, feldas," around it. From this period 
Selborne became a market town : but how long it enjoyed that pri- 
vilege does not appear. At the fame time Gurdon referved to 
himfelf, and his heirs, a way through the faid Plejlor to a tenement 
and fome crofts at the upper end, abutting on the fouth coi-ner of 
the church-yard. This was, in old days, the manerial houfe of 
the ftreet manor, though now a poor cottage ; and is known at 
prefent by the modern name of Elliot's. Sir Aiam aUb did, for the 
health of his own foul, and that of his wife Conftantia, their pre- 
decefibrs and fuccefTors, grant to the prior and canons quiet 
poffeffion of all the tenements and gardens, " curtillagia" which 
they had built and laid out on the lands in Selborne, on which he 
and his vaffals, " homines," had undoubted right of common : and 
moreover did grant to the convent the full privilege of that right 
of common •, and empowered the religious to build tenements and 
make gardens along the king's highway in the village of Selborne. 
From circumftances put together it appears that the above were 
the firft grants obtained by the Priory in the village of Selborne, 
after it had fubfifted about thirty -nine years : moreover they 
explain the nature of the mixed manor ftill remaining in and about 
the village, where one field or tenement iliall belong to Magdalen- 
e Bifliop 'fanner-, in \\\% NotittaMonaflica, has made a mulake refpefting the market and 
fair at Selborne : for in his references to Dodfworth, cart. 54 Hen. III. m. 3 . he fays, " De 
mercatu, et feria de Seleburn,'" But this reference is wrong ; for, m^itzdi oi Seleburn, it 
proves that the place there meant was Lekeborne, or Legeborne, in the county of Lincoln. 
This error was copied from the index of the Cat. MSS. Angl. It does not appear that 
there ever was a chartered fair at Selborne. For feveral particulars refpefting the prefent 
fair at Selborne fee Letter XXVI. of thefe Antiquities. 
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