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The Priory of 6'^/^or«£? had poffeffed in this village ^ Grange, an 
ufual appendage to manerial eftates, where the fruits of their lands 
were flowed and laid upforufe,at a time when men took the natural 
produce of their eftates in kind. The manfion of this fpot is ftill 
called the Grcvige, and is the manor-houfe of the convent polTef- 
fions in this place. The author has converfcd with very ancient 
people who remembered the old original Gnn/ge; but it has long 
given place to a modern farm-houfe. Magdalen Collegia holds a 
court-leet and court-baron" in the great wheat-barn of the faid 
G/V7;?or, annually, where the Prefident ufually fuperintends, attended 
by the hm-far and Jleward of the college, p 
The following uncommon prefentment at the court is not un- 
worthy of notice. There is on the fouth fide of the king's field, 
(a large common-field fo called) a confiderable tumulus, or 
hillock, now covereci with tlrorns and bufhes, and known by the 
name of Kite's Hill, which is prefented, year by year, in court as not 
ploughed. Why this injuntflion is flill kept up refpedting this fpot, 
which is furrounded on all fides by arable land, may be a qucftion 
not eafily folved, fince the ufage has long furvived the knowledge 
of the intention thereof. We can only fuppofe that as the prior, 
befides thurfct and pillory, load alfo furcas, a power of life and 
death, that he might have referved this little eminence as the 
place of execution for delinquents. And there is the more reafon 
to fuppofe fo, fince a fpot jufl by is called Ga/Zy [Gallov/s] hill, 
° The time when this court Is held is the mid-week between Eajler and Whitfuntide, 
^ Oiven Oglethorpe, prefident, &c. an. Edw. Sexti, primo [viz. 154.7.] demifed 
ito Robert Arde/i Selborne Cr««^^ for twenty years. Reat vi''.- -Index of Leafes. 
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