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THE

NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

OF

SELBORNE,

IN

THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON.

Embellished with Engravings.

1837.

CHISWICK PRESS:

C. WHITTINGHAM, COLLEGE HOUSE.

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WITH NOTES, BY EDWARD TURNER BENNETT, ESQ.
F. L. S. ETC. SECRETARY OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY;

AND OTHERS.

1837.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. AND A. ARCH; LONGMAN AND CO.; BALDWIN AND CRADOCK;
HATCHARD AND SON; R. SCHOLEY; J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON;

WHITTAKER AND CO.; J. DUNCAN; J. CAPES; W. MASON; E. HODGSON; J. BAIN;
W. J. AND J. MAYNARD; J. BOHN; J. VANVOORST;
AND ROULSTON AND SON.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Author of the following Letters takes the liberty, with all proper deference, of laying before the Public his idea of parochial history, which, he thinks, ought to consist of natural productions and occurrences as well as antiquities. He is also of opinion that if stationary men would pay some attention to the districts on which they reside, and would publish their thoughts respecting the objects that surround them, from such materials might be drawn the most complete county-histories, which are still wanting in several parts of this kingdom, and in particular in the county of Southampton.

And here he seizes the first opportunity, though a late one, of returning his most grateful acknowledgments to the reverend the President and the reverend and worthy the Fellows of Magdalen College, in the University of Oxford, for their liberal behaviour in permitting their archives to be searched by a member of their own society, so far as the evidences therein contained might respect the parish and priory of Selborne. To that gentleman also, and his assistant, whose labours and attention could only be equalled by the very kind manner in which they were bestowed, many and great obligations are also due.

Of the authenticity of the documents above-mentioned there can be no doubt, since they consist of the identical deeds and records that were removed to the College from the Priory at the time of its dissolution; and, being care

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