ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 321 
Here then was a preceptory unnoticed by antiquaries, between the 
village and Temple. Whatever the edifice of the preceptory might 
have been, it has long since been dilapidated; and the whole 
hamlet contains now only one mean farmhouse, though there were 
two in the memory of man. 
It has been usual for the religious of different orders to fall into 
great dissensions, and especially when they were near neighbours. 
Instances of this sort we have heard of between the monks of 
Canterbury ; and again between the old abbey of St. Swythun, and 
the comparatively new minster of Hyde in the city of Winchester.* 
These feuds arose probably from different orders being crowded 
within the narrow limits of a city, or garrison town, where every 
inch of ground was precious, and an object of contention. But 
with us, as far as my evidences extend, and while Robert Saunford 
was master,t and Richard Carpenter was preceptor, the Templars 
and the Priors lived in an intercourse of mutual good offices. 
My papers mention three transactions, the exact time of which 
cannot be ascertained, because they fell out before dates were 
usually inserted ; though probably they happened about the middle 
of the thirteenth century, not long after Saunford became master. 
The first of these is that the Templars shall pay to the priory of 
Selborne, annually, the sum of ten shillings at two half-yearly 
payments from their chamber, “camera,” at Sudington, “ per 
manum preceptoris, vel ballivi nostri, qui pro tempore fuerit 
ibidem,” till they can provide the prior and canons with an equiva- 
lent in lands or rents within four or five miles of the said convent. 
2 Notit1a MoNnASTICA, p. 155. 
‘‘ Winchester, Newminster. King Alfred founded here first only a house and chapel for 
the learned monk Grimbald, whom he had brought out of Flanders; but afterwards 
projected, and by his will ordered, a noble Church or religious house to be built in the 
cemetery on the north side of the old minster or cathedral, and designed that Grimbald 
should preside over it. This was begun A.D. gor, and finished to the honour of the Holy 
Trinity, Virgin Mary, and St. Peter, by his son King Edward, who placed therein secular 
canons, but A.D. 963 they were expelled, and an abbot and monks put in possession by 
bishop Ethelwold. 
‘* Now the churches and habitations of these two societies being so very near together, 
the differences which were occasioned by their singing, bells, and other matters, arose to 
so great a height, that the religious of the new monastery thought fit, about A.D. 1119, to 
remove to a better and more quiet situation without the walls, on the north part of the 
city called Hyde, where King Edward I., at the instance of Will. Gifford, bishop cf 
Winton, founded a stately abbey for them. St. Peter was generally accounted patron ; 
though it is sometimes called the monastery of St. Grimbald, and sometimes of St. 
Barnabas,” &c. 
Notr.—A few years since a county bridewell, or house of correction, has been built on 
the immediate site of Hyde Abbey. In digging up the old foundations the workmen 
found the head of a crosier in good preservation. 
+ Robert Saunforde was Master of the Temple in 1241 ; Guido de Foresta was the next 
in 1292. The former is fifth in a list of the masters, ina MS. “Bib. Cotton. Nero, 
1 ORDA ee 
¥ 
