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THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
were the first grants obtained hy tlie Priory in the village of 
Selborne, after it had subsisted about thirty-nine years : more- 
over, they explain the nature of the mixed manor still remaining 
in and about the village, where one field or tenement shall 
belong to Magdalen College in the University of Oxford, and 
the next to Norton Powlet, Esq., of Eotherfield 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 churchyard and vicarage garden) as an improve- 
laent 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 
continued his regard for Sir Adam, whom he esteemed as a 
brave man, and made him warden, " custos" of the forest of 
Wolmer.^ Though little emolument might hang to the appoint- 
^ Since the letters respecting Wolmer Forest and Ayles Holt, from p. 
14 to p. 27, were printed, the author has been favoured with the following 
extracts : — 
In the " Act of Kesumption, 1 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 Pari. vol. vi. p. 370. 
In the 11 Hen. VII. 1495. — " Warlham [Wardleham] and the office of 
forest [forester] of Wohnere" were held by Edmund, Duke of Suffolk.-^ 
Bolls, ib. 474. 
Act of general pardon, 14 Hen. VIII. 1523, not 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, 
