326 ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 



and the comparatively new minster of Hyde in the city of Win- 

 chester.* 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, f 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 



* NOTITIA MONASTICA, 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. 901, 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 of 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," etc. 



NOTE. 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. 



f Robert Saunforde was Master of the Temple in 1241 ; Guido de Foresta 

 was the next in 1292. The for.nsr is fifth in a list of the masters, in a MS. 

 "Bib. Cotton. Nero. E. VI." 



