OF SELBORNE. 
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and the pleafures of the chafe. A large domain, therefore, at 
little more than a mile diftance, and well flocked with game, muft 
have been a very eligible acquifition, affording him influence as 
well as entertainment ; and eipeclally as the manerial houfe of 
1'empk, by its exalted fituation, could command a view of near 
two-thirds of the foreft. 
That Gurdon, who had lived fome years the life of an outlaw, 
and at the head of an army of infurgents, was, for a confiderable 
time, in high rebellion againfl his fovereign, fhould have been 
guilty of fome outrages, and fliould have committed fome depre- 
dations, is by no means matter of wonder» Accordingly we find 
a dijlringas againfl him, ordering him to reflore to the bifhop of 
IVinchefier fome of the tem.poralities of that fee, which he had 
taken by violence and detained ; viz. fome lands in Hochekye, and 
a mill By a breve, or writ, from the king he is alfo enjoined 
to readmit the bifhop of Winchejler, and his tenants of the parifh 
and town of Farnham, to paflure their horfes, and other larger 
cattle, " averia," in the foreft of IVolmer, as had been the ufage 
from dme immemorial. This writ is dated in the tenth year of 
the reign of Edward., viz. 1282. 
All the king's writs direfted to Gurdon are addreffed in the 
following manner : " Edwardus, Dei gratia, &c. dilefto et fideli 
*' fuo Ade Gurdon falutem and again, ** Cuftodi forefte fue de 
J'Folv enter 
In the year 1293 a quarrel between the crews of an Englljlo and 
a 'Norman fliip, about fome trifle, brought on by degrees fuch 
ferious confequences, that in 1295 a war broke out between the 
•> Hochekye, now fpelt Haivkky, is in the hundred of Selborne, and has a mill at this 
day. 
two 
