After this, among my documents, I find occafional mention of
a vicar here and there : the firfl is
Roger, inftituted in 1254.
In 1410 John Lynne was vicar of Selborne.
In 1411 Hugo Tybbe was vicar.
The prefentations to the vicarage of Selborne generally ran in the
name of the prior and the convent; but Tybbe was prefented by
prior John Wynechefire only.
June 29, 1528, William Fijher, vicar of Selborne, religned to
Miles Peyrfon.
1594, William White appears to have been vicar to this time.
O f this perfon there is nothing remarkable, but that he hath made
a regular entry twice in the regtiler of Selborne of the funeral of
Thomas Cowper, bifhop of Winchejler, as if he had been buried at
Selborne ; yet this learned prelate, who died 1594, was buried at
Winchejler, in the cathedral, near the epifcopal throne'.
1595, Richard Boughton, vicar.
1596, William Inkforbye, vicar.
May 1606, Thomas Phippes, vicar,
June 1631, Ralph Aujline, vicar,
July 1632, John Longworth. This unfortunate gentleman,
living in the time of Cromwell's ufurpation, was deprived of his
preferment for many years, probably becaufe he would not take
the league and covenant: for I obferve that his father-in-law, the
Reverend Jethro Beal, redlor of Faring don, which is the next parifh,
enjoyed his benefice during the wholé of that unhappy period. Long-
worth, after he was difpoffeifed, retired to a little tenement about
one hundred and fifty yards from thé church, where he earned a *
* See Godwin de prasfulibus, folio Cant. 1743, page »39.
fmall
friiall pittance by th£:ipradtice of phyfiic; During thoie difinal
times1 it was-not uncommon-for the depofed clergy to take up a
niedical chara&er; as was the cafe in particular, I know, with
the Reverend Mr. Talden, redlor of Compton, near Guildford, in
the county o f Surrey. Vicar Longworth ufed frequently to mention
to his Tons, who toid it to my relations/ that, the Sunday after his
deprivation, his puritanical fucCeffor ftepped into the pulpit with
nb fmall petulance and exultation; and began his fermon from
Pfalm xx. 8. “ They are brought down and fallen -, but we are rifen'
“ andjlandupright.” This perfon lived to1 be reftored in 1660, and
Continued vicar fori eighteen y&ars ; but was fo impoverifhed by his
misfortunes, that he left the vicarage-houfe and prepufes in a
very abjccl. and dilapidated ftate. ' c,
1 July 1678. Richard Byfield, who left eighty-pounds by will,'
the intereft to be applied to apprentice out poor children: but
this fnortey, lent on private Tecurity, was in danger of being loft,
and the bequeft remained in an unfettled ftate for near twenty
^ears, till 1700 ; fo that little or no advantage was derived from
it. About the year 1759 it was again in the utmoft danger by
the failure of a borrower; but, by prudent management, has fince
been raifed-to one hundred1 pounds flock in the three per cents
reduced. The truftees are the vicar and the: renters or owners of
Temple, Priory, ' Grange, Blacbmore, and O'akhanger-houfe, for the'
time being. This gentleman feemed inclined to have put the
vicarial premifes in a comfortable ftate ; and began, by building a
folid ftone wall round the front-court, and another in the lower
yard, between that and the neighbouring garden ; but was inter-^
rupted by death from fulfilling his laudable intentions,
April, 1680, Barnabas Long became vicar.