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college in the nniveiTity of Oxford, and the next to Norton Powkt, efq, 
of Rotherf.eld houfe ; and fo down the whole ftreet. The cafe was, 
that the whole was once the property of Gurdon, till he made his 
grants to the convent ; fince which fome belongs to the fuccelTors 
of Gurdon in the manor, and fome to the college ; and this is the 
occafion of the ftrange jumble of property. It is remarkable that 
the tenement and crofts which Sir Adam referved at the time of 
granting the Pleftor fliould ftill remain a part of the Giir don-manor ^ 
though fo defirable an addition to the vicarage that is not as yet 
poffeffed of one inch of glebe at home : but of late, viz. in January 
1785, Magdalen- college purchafed that little eflate, which is life- 
holding, in reverfion, for the generous purpofe of beftowing it, 
and it's 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 beftowed the Tlejlor on the Priory, wz. 
in 1272, He?iry III. king of England diAQ^, and was fucceeded by 
his fon Edward. This magnanimous prince continued his regard 
for Sir Adam, whom he efteemed as a brave man, and made him 
warden, " cujios," of the foreft of Wolmer^. Though little emo* 
lument 
<■ since the letters refpefting Wolmer-forefi and Ayles-halt, from p. 14. to 26, were 
printed, the author has been favoured with the following extrafts : 
In the " Aft of Refumption, i Hen. VII." it was provided, that it be not prejudicial 
to " Harry at Lode., ranger of our foreft of Wolmere, to him by oure letters patents 
" before tyme gevyn." Rolls of Pari. Vol. VI. p. 370. 
In the II Hen. VII. 1495 — " Warlham [Waidleham] and the otfice of forefl [forefler j 
of Wolmere" were held by fc/wtfWduke of Suffolk. — Rolls, ib. 474. 
Ad- of general pardon, 14 Hai. VIII. 1 513, not to extend to " Rich. Bp. JVyntou 
" [biftiop Fo.x'l for any fcizureor forfeiture of liberties, &c, within the foreft oiWolmer, 
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