OF SEL BORNE. 4,7 
have fome mill 011 a high road. The Priory had only one mill 
originally at Selborne ; but, by grants of lands, it came poffefled of 
one at Durtcn, and one at Oakhanger, and probably fome on it's 
other feveral manors The mill at the Priory was in ufe within 
the memory of man, and the ruins of the mill-houfe were (landing 
within thefe thirty years : the pond and dam, and miller's dwelling, 
ftill remain. As the ftream was apt to fail in very dry fummers, 
the tenants found their fituation very diftreffing, for want of water, 
and fo were forced to abandon the fpot. This inconvenience was 
probably never felt in old times, when the whole diftrid was no- 
thing but woodlands : and yet feveral centuries ago there feem to 
have been two or three mills between If 'ell-head and the Priory. 
For the reafon of thisaffertion, fee Letter XXIX. to Mr. Barr'mgton, 
Occafional mention has been made of the many privileges 
and immunities enjoyed by the convent and it's priors ; but a 
more particular Hate feems to be neceffary. The author therefore 
thinks this the proper place, before he concludes thefe antiquities, 
to introduce all that has been colleded by the judicious bilhop 
Tanner, refpefting the Priory and it's advantages, in his Notitia 
Monciftica, a book now feldom feen, on account of the extravagance 
of it's price ; and being but in few hands cannot be eafily con- 
fulted"". He alfo adds a few of it's many privileges from other 
authorities : — the account is as follows. Tanner, page 166. 
^ Thomas Kno-wles, prefident, &c. ann. Hen. 8vi. xxiii". [viz. 1532.] demifed 
toJ.Whiteliethe\rm\\h, Sec, for twenty years. Rent, xxiii /. n\\ J.— Accepted Freiven, 
prefident, &c. ann. Caro/i xv. [viz. 1640.] demifed to Jo. Hook and Elizabeth, his 
wife, the faid mills. Rent as above. 
A few days after this was written a new edition of this valuable work was an. 
nounced, in the month of April of the year 1787, as publifhed by iVIr. Naf/nith. 
Hhh 
SELEBURNE. 
