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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 disgrace, though dastardy was esteemed the greatest. 

 He was married to Gunnorie Duncan ; and had a tenement 

 and some land granted him in Selborne by his sister Johanna. 



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