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ufually inferted; though probably they happened about the mid- 
dle of the thirteenth century, not long after Saunford became mafier. 
The firfi: of thefe is that the 'Templars, fliall ' pay to the priory of 
Sdborne, annually, the fum of ten Pnillings at two half yearly pay- 
ments from their chamber, " camera,'^ at Sudirigton, per maniim 
preceptoris, vel ballivi noftri, qui pro tempore fuerit ibidem," 
till they can provide the prior and canons with an equivalent in 
lands or rents within four or five miles of the faid convent. It is 
alfo further agreed that, if the "Templars fliall be in arrears for one 
year, that then the prior fhall be empowered to diftrain upon their 
live (lock in Brad:fetb. The next matter v/as a grant from Robert 
de Saunford to the priory for ever> of a good and fufficient road, 
" chemlnuni,'' capable of admitting carriages, and proper for the 
drift of their larger cattle, from the way which extends from 
Siidington towards Blakcmere, on to the lands which the convent 
poffeffes In Bradefetb. 
The third tranfidion (though for want of dates we cannot fay 
which happened firft and u/hich laft) was a grant from Robert 
Saniford to the priory of a tenement and its appurtenances in the 
village of Selborne, given to the Templars by Anicricus de Fafcl'^, 
This property, by the manner of defcribing it, — " totum tcne- 
" mentum cum omnibus pertinentiis ftiis, fcilicet in terris, & 
"■ hominibus, in pratis & pafcuis, & nemoribus," &c. feems to 
have been no inconliderabie purchafe, and was fold for two hun- 
dred marks iterling, to be applied for the buying of more land 
for the fupport of the holy war.. 
p Americus Vafci, by his name, muft have been an Italian, and had been probably a 
foldier of fortune, and one of Giirdon's captains. Aiiuricus Vefpucio, the perfon who 
gave name to the new world, was a Florentine. 
Prior 
