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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? 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 



Notitia Monastica, p. 155. 



n " 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 Grim- 

 " bald 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 

 u son king Edward, who placed therein secular canons : but A.D. 963 

 11 they were expelled, and an abbot and monks put in possession by 

 " bishop EtMwold. 



u Now the churches and habitations of these two societies being so 

 <l 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 Henry I. at the instance of 

 u 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. Barna- 

 " bas," &c. 



Note. A few years since a county bridewell, or house of correction, 

 has been built on the immediate site of Hide 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 

 in a MS. Bib. Cotton. Nero. E. VI. 



