In _Surrey_ they had the manor farm of Temple Elfand or Elfante, and an estate at Merrow in the hundred of Woking. In _Gloucestershire_, the manors of Lower Dowdeswell, Pegsworth, Amford, Nishange, and five others which belonged to them wholly or in part, the church of Down Ammey, and lands in Framton, Temple Guting, and Little Rissington. In _Worcestershire_, the manor of Templars Lawern, and lands in Flavel, Temple Broughton, and Hanbury.[136] In _Northamptonshire_, the manors of Asheby, Thorp, Watervill, &c. &c.; they had the advowson of the church of the manor of Hardwicke in Orlington hundred, and we find that "Robert Saunford, Master of the soldiery of the Temple in England," presented to it in the year 1238.[137] In _Nottinghamshire_, the Templars possessed the church of Marnham, lands and rents at Gretton and North Carleton; in _Westmoreland_, the manor of Temple Sowerby; in the Isle of Wight, the manor of Uggeton, and lands in Kerne.[138] But it would be tedious further to continue with a dry detail of ancient names and places; sufficient has been said to give an idea of the enormous wealth of the order in this country, where it is known to have possessed some hundreds of manors, the advowson or right of presentation to churches innumerable, and thousands of acres of arable land, pasture, and woodland, besides villages, farm-houses, mills, and tithes, rights of common, of fishing, of cutting wood in forests, &c. &c. There were also several preceptories in Scotland and Ireland, which were dependent on the Temple at London. The annual income of the order in Europe has been roughly estimated at six millions sterling! According to Matthew Paris, the Templars possessed _nine thousand_ manors or lordships in Christendom, besides a large revenue and immense riches arising from the constant charitable bequests and donations of sums of money from pious persons.[139] "They were also endowed," says James of Vitry, bishop of Acre, "with farms, towns, and villages, to an immense extent both in the East and in the West, out of the revenues of which they send yearly a certain sum of money for the defence of the Holy Land to their head Master at the chief house of their order in Jerusalem."[140] The Templars, in imitation of the other monastic establishments, obtained from pious and charitable people all the advowsons within their reach, and frequently retained the tithe and the glebe in their own hands, deputing a priest of the order to perform divine service and administer the sacraments.