3i 6 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



about the village, where one field or tenement shall belong to 

 Magdalen College in the University of Oxford, and the next to 

 Norton Powlett, Esq., of Rotherfield House, and so down the 

 whole street. The case was, that the whole was once the property 

 of Gurdon, till he made his grants to the convent, since which 

 some belongs to the successors of Gurdon in the manor, and some 

 to the college ; and this is the occasion of the strange jumble of 

 property. It is remarkable that the tenement and crofts which Sir 

 Adam reserved at the time of granting the Plestor should still 

 remain a part of the Gurdon Manor, though so desirable an 

 addition to the vicarage that is not as yet possessed of one inch 

 of glebe at home; but of late, viz., in January, 1785, Magdalen 

 College purchased that little estate, which is life-holding, in 

 reversion, for the generous purpose of bestowing it, and its lands, 

 being twelve acres (three of which abut on the church-yard and 

 vicarage garden) as an improvement hereafter to the living, and an 

 eligible advantage to future incumbents. 



The year after Gurdon had bestowed the Plestor on the priory, 

 viz., in 1272, Henry III., King of England, died, and was 

 succeeded by his son Edward. This magnanimous prince con- 

 tinued his regard for Sir Adam, whom he esteemed as a brave man, 

 and made him warden, " custos" of the forest of Woolmer.* 



* Since the letters respecting Woolmer-forest and Ayles-holt, pp. 16 31, were printed, 

 the author has been favoured with the following extracts : 



" In the 'Act of Resumption, i Hen. VII.' it was provided, that it be not prejudicial to 

 ' Harry at Lode, ranger of our forest of Wolmere, to him by oure letters patents before 

 tyme gevyn.' " Rolls of Parl. , vol. vi. p. 370. 



" In the ii Hen. VII., 1495, ' Warlham (VVardleham) and the office of forest (forester) 

 of Wolmere,' were held by Jhdmund, duke of Suffolk." Rolls, ib. 474. 



"Act of general pardon, 14 Hen. VIII., 1523, net to extend to 'Rich. Bp. of Wynton 

 (bishop Fox) for any seizure or forfeiture of liberties, &c., within the forest of Wolmer, 

 Alysholt, and Newe Forest; nor to any person for waste, &c., within the manor of 

 \Vardlam, or parish of Wardlam (Wardleham); nor to abusing, &c.. of any office or fee, 

 within the said forests of Wolmer or Alysholt, or the said park of Wardlam.'" County 

 Suth't. Rolls prefi xt to ist Vol. of Journals of the Lords, p. xciii. b. 



To these may be added some other particulars, taken from a bock lately published, 

 entitled "An Acccunt of all the Manors, Messuages, Lands, &c.. in the different Counties 

 of England and Wales, held by Lease from the Crown ; as contained in the Report of the 

 Commissioners appointed to inquire into the State and Condition of the Royal Forests, 

 c." London, 1787. 



"Southampton. 



P. 64. " A fee-farm rent of 3i/. 2S. lid. out of the manors of East and West Wardle- 

 ham ; and also the office of lieutenant or keeper of the forest or chase of Aliceholt and 

 Wolmer, with all offices, fees, commodities, and privileges thereto belonging. 



" Names of lessees, WilLam, earl of Dartmouth, and others (in trust). 



"Date of the last lease, March 23, 1780; granted for such term as would fill up the 

 subsisting term to 31 years. 



"Expiration March 23, 1811. 



" Southampton. 



"Hundreds Selborne and Finchdeane. 

 " Honours and manors, &c. 



'Aliceholt forest, three parks there. 



