OF SELBORNE. 319 



The first of these is that the 

 '/\'it//>/<t)'.-< sliall pay to the priory of Selborne, annually, the 

 sum of ten shillings at two half yearly payments from their 

 chamber, "camera" at Sudington, "per manum preceptoris, 

 " vel ballivi nostri, qui pro tempore fuerit ibidem," till they 

 can provide the prior and canons with an equivalent in lands 

 or rents within four or five miles of the said convent. It is 

 also further agreed that, if the Templars shall be in arrears 

 for one year, that then the prior shall be empowered to dis- 

 train upon their live stock in Bradeseth. The next matter 

 was a grant from Robert de Saunford to the priory for ever, 

 of a good and sufficient road, " cheminum" capable of ad- 

 mitting carriages, and proper for the drift of their larger 

 cattle, from the way which extends from Sudington towards 

 Blakemere, on to the lands which the convent possesses in 

 Bradeseth. 



The third transaction (though for want of dates we cannot 

 say which happened first and which last) was a grant from 

 Robert Samford to the priory of a tenement and its appurte- 

 nances in the village of Selborne, given to the Templars by 

 Americus de Vasci.* This property, by the manner of de- 

 scribing it, " totum tenementum cum omnibus pertinentiis 

 u suis, scilicet in terris, & hominibus, in pratis & pascuis, & 

 " nemoribus," <fec. seems to have been no inconsiderable pur- 

 chase, and was sold for two hundred marks sterling, to be 

 applied for the buying of more land for the support of the 

 holy war. 



Prior John is mentioned as the person to whom VascCs 

 land is conveyed. But in Willis's list there is no prior John 

 till 1339, several years after the dissolution of the order of 

 the Templars in 1312 ; so that unless Willis is wrong, and 

 has omitted a prior John since 1262, (that being the date of 

 his first prior) these transactions must have fallen out before 

 that date. 



P Americus Vasci, by his name, must have been an Italian, and had 

 been probably a soldier of fortune, and one of Gurdoris captains. Ameri- 

 ca* } 'nijweio, the person who gave name to the new world was a Flo- 

 rentine. 



