Old Hampshire Mapped
Cox's Hampshire
Transcription (59)Segontiaci
Holdshot Hundred
Caesar
Selborne
de Rupibus, Peter
Selborne Priory
Alton
Alfred
Pecsal, Richard
de Alton, William
Friar Pits
The Segontiaci inhabited, who submitted themselves to Caesar at his first Approach: They dwelt in the utmost Northern Borders, where now is the Hundred of Holshot, and in these Parts we find these Places most remarkable:
Selburn, a little Market Town. The Market is on [ ] weekly, and the Fair on [ ] yearly. Here Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, founded a Monastery of Canons Regular of St. Augustine in King Henry III.'s Reign. Not far from this Town is
Alton, a little Market Town between Farnham in Surrey, and Alresford in the London Road: King Alfred gave it by Will to the Keeper of Leodre. The Market is on Saturdays weekly, and the Fair on [ ] yearly. It is a good Market for Provisions.
The Manor of this Town, with divers Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, belonged before the Dissolution to the Monastery of Hide, but then falling into the King's Hands, were given by the said King Henry VIII. to Richard Pecsal Esq; who soon after exchanged them with the said King, for Lands in the County of Wilts.
This Place gave Name to William de Alton, a Dominican Friar, who wrote in King Edward II.'s Reign, and asserted that the Virgin Mary was polluted with original Sin, as all Mankind are. Friar Pits, famous in foreign Parts in King James I.'s Time, was born near this Town; he was the Jesuit Sanders's Nephew, and died Dean of Verdun in Lorrain. North West of this Town is
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