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OF SELBORNE. 
nient, yet are there reasons why it niiglit be higlily acceptable ; 
and, in a few reigns after, it was given to princes of the blood. ^ 
In old days gentry resided more at home on their estates, 
and having fewer resources of elegant in-door amusement, spent 
most of their leisure hours in the field and the pleasures of the 
chase. A large domain, therefore, at little more than a mile dis- 
tance, and w^ell stocked with game, must have been a very eligible 
acquisition, affording him influence as well as entertainment; and 
especially as the manorial 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 
&c. within the manor of Wardlam, or parish of Wardlam [Wardlehara ;] 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 prefixed 
to first vol. of Journals of the Lords, p. xciii. b. 
To these may be added some other particulars, taken from a book lately 
published, entitled " An Account 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 34/. 2s. lid out of the manors of East and 
West Wardleham ; 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, William, 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 thirty-one years. 
"Expiration, March 23, 1811." 
"Appendix, No. IIL" 
" Southampton." 
" Hundreds — Selborne and Finchdeane." 
" Honours and manors," &c. 
" Aliceholt Forest, three parks there. 
" Bensted and Kingsley ; a petition of the parishioners concerning the 
three parks in Aliceholt Forest." 
William, first Earl of Dartmouth, and paternal grnndfather to the present 
Lord Stawel, was a lessee of the forests of Aliceholt and Wolmer before 
Brigadier-General Emanuel Scroope Howe, 
^ See Letter II. of these Antic|uities. 
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