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curacy, it is probable the preceptories of the Templars, when given to the 

 Hospitalers, were still vulgarly, however, called by their old name of pre- 

 ceptories ; whereas in propriety societies of the Hospitalers were indeed 

 (as has been said) commanderies. And such deviation from the strictness 

 of expression in this case might occasion those societies of Hospitalers also 

 to be indifferently called preceptories, which had originally been vested in 

 them, having never belonged to the Templars at all. See in ARCHER, 

 p. 609 ; TANNER, p. 300, col. i, 720, n. e. 



It is observable that the very statute for the dissolution of the Hospitalers 

 holds the same language ; for there, in the enumeration of particulars occur 

 " commanderies, preceptories." CODEX, p. 1 190. Now this intercommunity 

 of names, and that in an Act of Parliament too, made some of our ablest 

 antiquaries look upon a preceptory and commandery as strictly synonymous ; 

 accordingly we find Camden, in his " Britannia," explaining praeceptoria in 

 the text by a commandery in the margin, pp. 356, 510. J. L. 



Commandery, a manor or chief messuage with lands, etc., belonging to 

 the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem; and he who had the government of 

 such house was called the commander, who could not dispose of it but to 

 the use of the Priory, only taking thence his own sustenance, according 

 to his degree, who was usually a brother of the same Priory. COWELL. 

 He adds (confounding these with preceptories) they are in many places 

 termed temples, as Temple Bruere in Lincolnshire, etc. Preceptories were 

 possessed by the more eminent sort of Templars, whom the chief master 

 created and called Praeceptores Templi. COWELL, who refers to STEPHENS'S 

 Dejurisd. lib. iv. c. 10, no. 27. 



Placita de juratis et assis coram Salom. de Roff et sociis suis justic. 

 Itiner. apud Wynton, etc., anno regni R. Edwardi fil. Reg. Hen. octavo. 

 " et Magr. Milicie Templi in Angl. ht emendasse panis, et suis [cerevisiae] 

 in Sodington, et nescint q. war. et et magist. Milicie Templi non ven io 

 distr." Chapter House, Westminster. G. W. 



2 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 honor 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, 



