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of Southampton, viz., Godesfield, founded by Henry de Blois, 

 bishop of Winchester, and South Badeisley, a preceptory of 

 the Knights Templars, and afterwards of St. John of Jeru- 

 salem, valued at one hundred and eighteen pounds sixteen 

 shillings and sevenpence per annum. 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 ham- 

 let 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 

 neighbors. 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. 2 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 pre- 

 cious and an object of contention. But with us, as far as my 

 evidences extend, and while Robert Saunford was master, 3 

 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 Tem- 

 plars shall pay to the Priory of Selborne, annually, the sum 

 of ten shillings at two half-yearly payments from their cham- 

 ber, "camera," at Sudington, "per manum preceptoris, vel 

 ballivi nostri, qui pro tempore fuerit ibidem," till they can 

 provide the prior and canons with an equivalent in lands or 

 rents within four or five miles of the said convent. It is also 

 further agreed that, if the Templars shall be in arrears for 

 one year, then the prior shall be empowered to distrain upon 

 their live-stock in Bradeseth. The next matter was a grant 

 from Robert de Sunford to the Priory forever, of a good and 

 sufficient road, " cheminum," capable of admitting carriages, 

 and proper for the drift of their larger cattle, from the way 



