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lument might hang to this appointment, yet are there reafons why
it might he highly acceptable; and, in a few reigns after, it was
given to princes of the blood s. In old days gentry relided more
at home on their eftates, and, having fewer refources of elegant
in-door amufement, fpent mod of their leifure hours in the field
<f Aly/boltj and Newe For eft; nor to any perfon for wafte, &c. within the manor o f Ward-
c< lam, or parifli o f Wardlam \Wardleham~\ j nor to abufing, &c. o f any office or fee,
“ within the laid forefts o f Wolmer or Alyjbolt, or the faid park o f Wardlam."— County
Sutb't. Rolls prefixt to if t Vol. o f Journals o f the Lords, p. xciii. b.
T o thefe may be added fome other particulars, taken from a book lately publifhed,
entitled “ A n Account of all the Manors, Meffuages, Lands, &c. in the different
“ Counties o f England and Wales, held by Leafe from the Crown j as contained in the
“ Report o f the Commiffioners appointed to inquire into the State and Condition o f the
(t Royal Forefts,” See.------London, 1787.
tc Southampton.”
£ . s. d.
P. 64-, “ A fee-farm rent o f 31 a 11 out o f the manors o f Eaft and Weft
** Wardlebam; and alfo the office o f lieutenant or keeper o f the foreft or chafe o f Alicebolt
“ and Wolmer, with all offices, fees, commodities, and privileges thereto belonging.
tc Names o f leffees, William earl o f Dartmouth and others (in truft.)
“ Date o f the laft leafe, March 23, 1780 j granted for fuch term as would fill up the
if fubfifting term to 31 years.
: <e Expiration March 23, 1811.”
te Appendix, N°. I I I .”
<£ Southampton.”
“ Hundreds— Setborne and Finchdeane."
(t Honours and manors,” &e.
“ Alicebolt foreft, three parks there.
** Benjled and Kingjley; a petition o f the pariftiioners concerning the three parks in
<c Alicebolt foreft.”
William, firft earl o f Dartmouth, and paternal grandfather to the prefent lord Stanueli
was aleffee o f the forefts o f Alicebolt and Wolmer before brigadier-general Emanuel Scroope
Howe.
g See Letter I I , o f thefe Antiquities,
and
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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 efpecially as the manerial. houfe of
Temple, 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 againft his fovereign, Ihould have been;
guilty of fome outrages, and Ihould have committed fome depredations,
is by no means matter of wonder. Accordingly we find
a diftringas againft him, ordering, him to reftore to. the bifliop of
Winchefter fome of the temporalities of that fee, which he had
taken by violence and detained; viz. fome lands in Hocheleye, and
a mill '. By a breve, or writ, from the king he is alfo enjoined
to readmit the bilhop of Winchefter, and his tenants of the parilh
and town of Farnham, to pafture their horfes* and other larger
cattle, “ averia,” in the foreft of Wolmer, as had been the ufage
from time immemorial. This writ is dated in the tenth year of
the feign of Edward, viz. 1282, ■
All the king’s writs diredted to Gurdon are addrefled in the
following manner: “ Edwardus, Dei gratia, &c. diledto et fideli
“ fuo Ade Gurdon falutem and again, “ Cuftodi forefte fue de
“ Wolvemere.”1 .
| In the year 1293 a quarrel between the crews of an Englijh and'
a Norman fhip, about fome trifle, brought on by degrees fuch
ferious confequences, that, in 1295 a war broke out between the
h Hocbchjt, now fpelt Hartley, is in the hundred o f Selbome, and has a mill at this
clay.
two