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silence, therefore, of my evidences it seems probable that this 
extraordinary person finished his life in peace, not long after, at 
his mansion of Temple. Gurdon’s sea! had for its device—a man, 
with an helmet on his head, drawing a cross-bow ; the legend, 
“ Stetllum Ade de Gurdon,;” his arms were, “ Goulis, iii floures 
argent issant de testes de leopards.” * 
If the stout and unsubmitting spirit of Gurdon could be so much 
influenced by the belief and superstition of the times, much more 
might the hearts of his ladies and daughter. And accordingly we 
find that Ameria, by the consent and advice of her sons, though 
said to be all under age, makes a grant for ever of some lands 
down by the stream at Durton; and also of her right of the 
common of Durton itself.f Johanna, the daughter and heiress 
of Sir Adam, was married, I find, to Richard Achard ; she also 
grants to the prior and convent lands and tenements in the village 
of Selborne, which her father obtained from Thomas Makerel ; and 
also all her goods and chattels in Selborne for the consideration of 
two hundred pounds sterling. This last business was transacted in 
the first year of Edward II., viz., 1307. It has been observed 
before that Gurdon had a natural son; this person was called by 
the name of John Dastard, alias Wastard, but more probably 
Bastard; since bastardy, in those days, was not deemed any 
disgrace, though dastardy was esteemed the greatest. He was 
married to Gunnorie Duncun; and had a tenement and some 
land granted him in Selborne by his sister Johanna. 
* From the collection of Thomas Martin, Esq., in the ‘‘ Antiquarian Repertory,” p. 109, 
No. XXXI. Lae 
+ Durton, now called Dorton, is still a common for the copyholders of Selborne manor. 
