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entertainment; and especially as the manerial house 

 of Temple, by its exalted situation, could command a 

 view of near two-thirds of the forest. 



That Gurdon, who had lived some years the life of an 

 outlaw, and, at the head of an army of insurgents, was, 

 for a considerable time in high rebellion against his 

 sovereign, should have been guilty of some outrages, 

 and should have committed some depredations, is by 

 no means matter of wonder. Accordingly we find a 

 distrmgas against him, ordering him to restore to the 

 Bishop of Winchester some of the temporalities of that 

 see, which he had taken by violence and detained ; viz. 

 some lands in Hocheleye, and a mill 7 . By a breve, or 

 writ, from the king he is also enjoined to readmit the 

 Bishop of Winchester, and his tenants of the parish 

 and town of Farnham, to pasture their horses, and 

 other larger cattle, " averia," in the Forest of Wolmer, 

 as had been the usage from time immemorial. This 

 writ is dated in the tenth year of the reign of Edward, 

 viz. 1282. 



All the king's writs directed to Gurdon are addressed 

 in the following manner: "Edwardus, Dei gratia, &c. 

 dilecto et fideli suo Ade Gurdon salutem ;" and again, 

 " Custodi foreste sue de Wolvemere." 



In the year 1293 a quarrel between the crews of an 

 English and a Norman ship, about some trifle, brought 

 on by degrees such serious consequences, that in 1295 

 a war broke out between the two nations. The French 

 king, Philip the Hardy, gained some advantages in 

 Gascony ; and, not content, with those, threatened 

 England with an invasion, and, by a sudden attempt, 

 took and burnt Dover. 



Upon this emergency Edward sent a writ to Gurdon, 

 ordering him and four others to enlist three thousand 

 soldiers in the counties of Surrey, Dorset, and Wilt- 



7 Hocheleye, now spelt Hawkley, is in the hundred of Sel borne, and 

 has a mill at this day. 



