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about the village, where one field or tenement shall belong to 
Magdalen College in the University of Oxford, and the next to 
Norton Powlett, Esq., of Rotherfield House, and so down the 
whole street. The case was, that the whole was once the property 
of Gurdon, till he made his grants to the convent, since which 
some belongs to the successors of Gurdon in the manor, and some 
to the college; and this is the occasion of the strange jumble of 
property. It is remarkable that the tenement and crofts which Sir 
Adam reserved at the time of granting the Plestor should still 
remain a part of the Gurdon Manor, though so desirable an 
addition to the vicarage that is not as yet possessed of one inch 
of glebe at home; but of late, viz., in January, 1785, Magdalen 
College parece that little estate, which is life-holding, in 
reversion, for the generous purpose of bestowing it, and its lands, 
being twelve acres (three of which abut on the church-yard and 
vicarage garden) as an improvement hereafter to the living, and an 
eligible advantage to future incumbents. 
The year after Gurdon had bestowed the Plestor on the priory, 
viz., in 1272, Henry IIi., King of England, died, and was 
succeeded i his son Edward. This magnanimous prince con- 
tinued his regard for Sir Adam, whom he esteemed as a brave man, 
and made him warden, “ custos,’ of the forest of Woolmer.* 
* Since the letters respecting Woolmer-forest and Ayles-holt, pp. 16—31, were printed, 
the author has been favoured with the following extracts :— 
‘*In the ‘Act of Resumption, 1 Hen. VII.’ it was provided, that it be not prejudicial to 
‘Harry at Lode, ranger of cur forest of Wolmere, to him by oure letters patents before 
tyme gevyn.’ ”—Rodlls of Pari., vol. vi. p. 370. 
“‘In the rz Hen. VII., 1495, PWaelbsen (Wardleham) and the office of forest (forester) 
of Wolmere,’ were held by kKdmund, duke of Suffolk.’’—Rod/s, 26. AT4: 
“‘Act of general pardon, 14 Hen. VIII. -» 1523, Not to extend to ‘Rich, Bp. of Wynton 
(bishop Fox) for any seizure or forfeiture otf liberties, &c., within the forest of Wolmer, 
Alysholt, and Newe Fcrest; nor to any person for waste, &c. , within the manor of 
W ardlam, or parish cf Wardlam (Wardleham); nor to abusing, &c., of any office or fee, 
within the said forests cf Wolmer or Alyshclt, or the said park of Wardlam. **»_County 
Suth’t.—Rodls prefiat to 1st Vol. of ¥ournals of the Lords, p. xciil. b. 
To these may be added some other particulars, taken from a book lately published, 
entitled ‘‘An Account cf all the Manors, Messuages, Lands, &c., in the different Ccunties 
of England and Wales, held by Lease from the Crown ; as contained in the Repert of the 
Commissioners appointed to inquire into the State and Condition of the Royal Forests, 
&c.”” London, 1787. 
“*Southamptcn. 
P.64. ‘‘A fee-farm rent of 312. 2s. 11d. cut of the manors of East and West Wardle- 
ham; and also the office of lieutenant or keeper of the forest or chase of Aliceholt and 
Wolmer, with all offices. fees, commodities, and privileges thereto belonging. 
**Names of lessees, Will.am, earl of Dartmouth, and others (in trust). 
““Date of the last lease, March 23, 1780; granted for such term as would fill up the 
subsisting term to 31 years. 
‘*Expiration March 23, 1811. 
** Scuthampton. 
“*Hundreds—Selborne and Finchdeane. 
**Hon:curs and manors, &c. 
**Aliceholt forest, three parks there. 
