3H ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



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 dis- 

 grace, 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. 



LETTER XI. 



THE Knights Templars,* who have been mentioned in a foimer 



* THE MILITARY ORDERS OF THE RELIGIOUS. 



The Knights Hospitalars of St. John of Jerusalem, afterwards called Knights 

 of Rhodes, now of Malta, came into England about the year uoo, I Hen. I. 



The Knights Templars came into England pretty early in Stephen's reign, 

 which commenced 1135. The order was dissolved in 1312, and their estates 

 given by Act of Parliament to the Hospitalars in 1323 (all in Edw. II.) though 

 many of their estates were never actually enjoyed by the said Hospitalars. 

 Vid. TANNER, p. 24, 10. 



The commandries of the Hospitalars, and preceptories of Templars, were 

 each subordinate to the principal house of their respective religion in London. 

 Although these are the different denominations, which ''Tanner" at p. 37 

 assigns to the cells of these different orders, yet throughout the work very fre- 

 quent instances occur of preceptories attributed to the Hospitalars ; and if in 

 some passages of "Notitia Monast." commandries are attributed to the 

 Templars, it is only where the place afterwards became the property of the 

 Hospitalars, and so is there indifferently styled preceptory or commandry ; see 

 p. 243, 263, 276, 577, 678. But, to account for the first observed inaccuracy, 

 it is probable the preceptories of the Templars, when given to the Hospitalars, 

 were still vulgarly, however, called by their old name of preceptories ; whereas 

 in propriety societies of the Hospitalars were indeed (as has been said) com- 

 mandaries. And such deviation from the strictness of expression in this case 

 mi^ht occasion those societies of Hospitalars also to be indifferently called pre- 



