down by the ftream at Durton; andalfo of her right of the common
of Durton i t f e l f Johanna, the daughter and heirefs of Sir Adam,
was married, I find, to Richard Jchard; (he alfo grants to the prior
and convent lands and tenements in the village of Selborne, which
her father obtained from Thomas Makerel; and alfo all her goods
and chattels in Selborne for the confideration of two hundred
pounds fterling. This laft bufinefs was tranfadted in the firft year
o f Edward II. viz. 1307. It has been obferved before that Gurdon
had a natural fon : this perfon was called by the name of John
Dajlard, alias Wajlard, but more probably Bajlard; fince baftardy
in thofe days was not efteemed any difgrace, though daftardy
was efteemed the greateft. He was married to Gunnorie Duncttn;
and had a tenement and fome land granted him in Selborne by his
filter Johanna.
1 Durton, now called Dorton, is Hill a common for the copyholders of Selbomt
manor.
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L E T T E R
L E T T E R XI.
T h e Knights Templars m, who have been mentioned in a former
letter, had confiderable property in Selborne; and alfo a preceptory
at Sudington, now called Southington, a hamlet lying one mile to
the
The M i l i t a r y O r d e r s of the R e l i g i o u s .
"> T h e KnigiU Hojpitalars o f St. John of Jerufalem, afterwards called Knights o f
Rhodes, now o f Malta, canieinto England about the year n o o . i Hen. I .
T h e Knights Templars came into England pretty early in Stephen's reign, which, commenced
1135. T h e order was diffolved in 1312, and their eftates given by aft o f Parliament
to the Hojpitalars in 1323. (all in Ednss. I I .) though many o f their eftates were
never aftually enjoyed by the faid Hojpitalars. Kid. Tanner, p. xx iv . x.
T h e commandries of the Hojpitalars, and preceptories o f Templars, were each fubordi-,
nate to the principal houfe o f their refpeftive religion in London. Although thefe are the
different denominations, which Tanner at p. xxviii. afligns to the cells of thefe different
orders, yet throughout the work very frequent inftances occur o f preceptories attributed
to the Hojpitalars; and i f in fome paflages of Notitia Monajl. commandries are attributed.
to the Templars, it is only where the place , afterwards became the property o f the
Hojpitalars, and fo is there indifferently ftyled preceptory or commanary, fee p. 243, 263,
,yS, 577, 678- But, to account for the firft obferved inaccuracy, it is probable the pre-.
ceptories of the Templars, when given to the Hojpitalars, were ftill vulgarly, however,,
called by their old name o f preceptories ; whereas in propriety the focieties o f the Hojpitalars
were indeed (as has been faid) commandries. A n d fuch deviation from the ftrift-.
net's o f expreflion in this cafe might occafion thofe focieties of Hojpitalars alfo to be indifferently
called preceptories, which had originally been vetted in them, having never be-,
longed to the Templars at all.— See in Archer, p. 609. Tanner, p. 3°o. col. 1. 720..
note e.
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