498 
THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
guilty of some outrages, and should have committed some depre- 
dations, is by no means matter of wonder. Accordingly we 
find a distringas against him, ordering him to restore to the 
Bishop of Winchester some of tiie temporalities of that see, 
wdiicli he had taken by violence and detained ; viz. some lands 
in Hocheleye, and a mill.^ By a breve, or writ, from the king 
lie 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 G ardon 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 ^N^orman ship, about some tritie, 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 Wiltshire, able-bodied men, 
" tam sagittare quam balistare potentes : " and to see that they 
were marched, by the feast of All Saints, to Winchelseaj there 
to be embarked aboard the king's transports. 
The occasion of this armament appears also from a summons 
to the Bishop of Winchester to parliament, part of which I 
shall transcribe on account of the insolent menace which is said 
therein to have been denounced against the English language : — 
" qualiter rex Franciae de terra nostra Gascon nos fraudulenter 
et cautelose decepit, eam nobis nequiter detenendo . . . vero 
predictis fraude et nequitia non content iis, ad expugnationem 
^ Hocheleye, now spelt Hawkley, is in the hundred of Selborne, and has 
a mill at this day. 
