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324 Sir Adam, was married, I find, to Richard Achard; she also grants to the prior and convent lands and tenements in the village of Selborne, which her father obtained from Thomas Makerel; and also all her goods and chattels in Selborne for the consideration of two hundred pounds sterling. This last business was transacted in the first year of Edward II., viz., 1307. It has been observed before that Gurdon had a natural son; this person was called by the name of John Dastard, alias Wastard, but more probably Bastard; since bastardy, in those days, was not deemed any disgrace, though dastardy was esteemed the greatest. He was married to Gunnorie Duncun; and had a tenement and some land granted him in Selborne by his sister Johanna.

T Knights Templars,* who have been mentioned in a former