CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS FAMILY. 133 



The Templars convey to John the Prior, and to the Convent 

 for ever, " totum tenementum cum omnibus pertinentiis, sc. 

 in terris et . . . .in pratis et pascuis et nemoribus et in 

 omnibus aliis locis, quod habuimus de dono Aymerici de Vasci 

 [so I read] in villa, de Seleburne," to be held " libere et in- 

 tegre et quiete ab omni seculari . . . . et exactione," as by 

 the Templars, in consideration of 200 marcs sterl. paid by the 

 convent to them for the purchase of other lands " in subsi- 

 dium Sanctce terrce" One of the witnesses is styled PRECEPTOR 

 OF SUDINGTON. The three remaining deeds are in the Index: 

 No. 139. " Concessio fratris Rob u de Samford &c. de uno Che- 

 minio &c." sine dat. No. 140. " Concessio similis priori." No. 

 138. " Concessio fratris Rob" militis &c. 10 sol. annuatim in 

 perpetuum percipiend." sine dato. All these are likewise wit- 

 nessed by Richard Carpenter, Preceptor of Sudington. Nos. 

 139 & 140 are grants from Rob. de Samford and the Templars 

 of a way sufficient " ad ducendum carros et haretas, et ad fu- 

 gandum averia a via que se extendit de Sudington versus 

 Blakemere ultra terram Ricardi de la Strete usque ad terrain 

 dictorum Prioris et Conventus quam habent in Bradesete." 

 No. 138 is an engagement of Robert and the Templars to pay 

 to the convent " decem solidos de camera nostra annuatim in 

 perpetuum percipiendos ad domum nostram de Sudington, 

 per manum Preceptoris vel Ballim nostri, qui pro tempore 

 fuerit," half-yearly until the Templars should purchase lands 

 within a certain distance of the convent, and to be given as 

 an equivalent. 



Yrs. R. CHANDLER. 



LETTER XXVII. 



TO SAMUEL BARKER. 



Selborne, Nov. 7, 1777. 

 DEAR SAM, 



No event that I have met with for some time has given me 

 more pleasure than the news of your being sent to the Uni- 



